March 23, 2007 – 11:26 am
This past winter here in Vermont has been about hibernating. After weeks of pining for snow in late fall and early winter, we finally got what we had coming, and man did we GET IT! I’d like to share with you some of the places I’ve went and people I’ve met while hibernating in my [...]
Katin shook the nets again. “From star to star…imagine, a great web that spreads across the galaxy, as far as man. That’s the matrix in which history happens today. Don’t you see? That’s it. That’s my theory. Each individual is a junction in that net, and the strands between are the cultural, the economic, the [...]
From Bookseller’s Round-up on derbis.org, the personal blog of FI contributor, Alex: “Today, being my own personal Saturday, I thought I’d take a moment to round-up some things that have piqued my interest in the world of bookselling in that past week. It’s an exciting world, full of danger and intrigue, so adjust your pacemaker [...]
December 31, 2006 – 09:54 pm
From DailyLit: “If you are like us, you spend hours each day reading email but don’t find the time to read books. DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read.” I haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds pretty cool. Check it out.
December 12, 2006 – 02:45 pm
From The Anxiety of Obsolescence: “The Anxiety of Obsolescence explores the seemingly tenuous position of literary fiction in contemporary U.S. media culture, paying particular attention to the ways in which the novel has suggested its own demise through its representations of television and other late twentieth-century modes of communication.
December 12, 2006 – 02:29 pm
From The Holy of Holies: “This paper is designed to be a conversation. I am presenting a collection of some of the more controversial ideas from the early chapters of my book on the history of disbelief. The ideas are organized loosely around a single theme: the Roman leader Pompey’s forced entry into the most [...]
December 1, 2006 – 11:28 am
Check out the NY Times’ 10 Best Books of 2006.
November 17, 2006 – 01:36 pm
From Representative Fictions, a review of a new two-volume treatise entitled, The Novel (which, itself, is based on an original, five-volume series published in Italian): “Rather than painstakingly interpreting the complexly integrated elements of a single text, distant reading conducts quantitative analyses of particular elements across hundreds of texts at once–the geographical location in which [...]
October 24, 2006 – 12:38 pm
Anyone who has been to my apartment knows that we tend to fill our wall space with bookshelves. And just a few days ago, I read an interesting article by Jay Parini about other people’s bookshelves. Which made me want to know, what’s on the bookshelf in the Oval Office? A quick search brought me [...]
October 4, 2006 – 01:10 pm
The New York Times has a review of Stephen King’s new novel, Lisey’s Story: “This time out, Mr. King, one of the few true rock stars of the book world, has written a novel that like “Bag of Bones,†from 1998, or the novellas of “Different Seasons,†published in 1982, does not entirely forgo horrific [...]
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