“Can someone save criticism from The Atlantic?”
So asks Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading, in reply to a new essay by Sarah Fay — “Could the Internet Save Book Reviews?” — published on the website of The… Read more »
Colbert’s children’s book releases same day Maurice Sendak dies
In a bittersweet twist of fate, Stephen Colbert’s children’s book, I Am A Pole (and So Can You!) released yesterday, the same day Maurice Sendak died. Sendak, of course, is… Read more »
Characters from novels can influence real-life behaviour
Put down the Bret Easton Ellis. A study conducted at Ohio State University indicates that our behaviour can be influenced by the fictional characters we read. It’s a phenomenon known… Read more »
Judge’s Wizard of Oz analogy too much for Government censors
Is the Wizard of Oz just too much for the innocent American public? Government censors think so. The Electronic Frontiers Foundation blog DeepLinks does a weekly round-up called “this week in transparency.” Among this… 3 / Read more »
Fodor’s revamping travel book apps
Travel guide company Fodor’s announced recently that they will be providing a series of city guides as mobile apps for iOS. Free for the first time, the apps from the… Read more »
Update on the death of the novel Autobiographies are literary dead end Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies Evolving paper books Cornel West wants to be Jesus First phones, now the… Read more »
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