"I'm Like a Bird"

Some background info for our reading, Nick Hornby's "I'm Like a Bird":

• Nelly Furtado's music video for "I'm Like a Bird" can be viewed at YouTube.
• I know you're not "afraid of looking like you don't know who Foucault is" (Hornby 338), but that doesn't mean it's not worth finding out. GLBTQ.com, an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian culture, has an entry on Michel Foucault, who is an important philosopher 20th century philosopher. (File this under "small world:" one of the editors of GLBTQ.com is Arnie Kantrowitz.)
• Dave Eggers has shown up in two of our readings, Hornby and Rebecca Mead's "You've Got Blog." You can read an excerpt of his autobiographical A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius at BookBrowse, and learn more about Eggers at Wikipedia.
• The Wikipedia entry on Hornby has lots of information and links as well.