Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- We are losing the art of reading (“the innate human desire to make ourselves look cleverer than we are, combined with an overabundance of consumer choice and the intense cultural bombardment of the digital age, means we increasingly lack both the time and willpower to engage with anything longer than 140 characters or more demanding than Granta or Grazia.”)
- War fatigue (“To the 17-year-old soldier or civilian, life without war is only theoretical.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Saddest Social Commentary of the Week
- Company makes bulletproof blanket to protect kids from gunfire
Bookish Linkage
- If you’re looking for a writer similar to a favorite author, try out the Literature Map
- Festival Fodder is the new blog for the South Dakota Festival of Books
- The journeys of this year’s NHL’s 16 playoff teams as literary genres
- The World Cup of Literature is much more interesting to me than the one that involves
soccerfutball - The new U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland was sworn in on a Kindle
- Robert Heinlein’s career may be “a case study in the literary perils of political extremism“
- The coming extinction of college English departments
- Bookish Lists: best books on Afghanistan; 10 books about juicy scandals; the top 10 feminist books; seven ways books can change your life; 10 great historical novels
Nonbookish Linkage
- Study says don’t blame the internet for dying newspapers
- Basic facts about guns in America
- The Game of Thrones religions
- 12 things America is worse at than soccer
I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.
Steven Wright
