Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Happiness Policy (“Should happiness data decide policy … and could a drug like Brave New World’s soma or an app that stimulates the brain’s pleasure centers be the ultimate policy tool?”)
Social Commentary Headline of the Week
Blog Headlines of the Week
- Todd Akin announces dream of being an author, world cries a little
- Civilization ends: E.L. James named Publishers Weekly’s ‘Person of the Year’
Blog Line of the Week
- “Joseph Anton is showing up on a few Best-Of lists, but those are obviously written by people who only read ten books this year and so had to include them all.”
Bookish Linkage
- The e-book buyer’s guide to privacy 2012
- Both the BBC and the LA Times look at how One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich shook the Soviet Union
- I’m surprised by some of the books that qualified for the top 10 novellas of all time
- Slate‘s critics pick the overlooked books of 2012 while Flavorwire lists the “unfairly overlooked” books
- Erotic fiction is tromping award nominees in UK sales
- Tips for writing “a really good bad review“
- Locus Online is hosting a poll for the best SF novels and short fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries
Nonbookish Linkage
- “The Catholic Church has established an exorcist hotline in Milan, its biggest diocese, to cope with demand.”
- Nineteen science fiction movies that could change your life
Inside us is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
José Saramago, Blindness
