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On Reality and Fiction: David Shields’s Reality Hunger
When David Shields’s Reality Hunger: A Manifesto came out in 2010, it was met with some strong criticism about the role of fiction. Journalists, litbloggers, and book reviewers were split over whether...
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The Pale King in the Margins: Meta-Wallace
Photo of The Pale King, courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons, user ErasingScott http://www.flickr.com/photos/erasingscott/5601278488/ As I read David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, I’m reminded that...
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The Pale King in the Margins: Wallace’s attempts to find fulfillment and...
Photo from flickr Creative Commons, user jakemohan, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakemohan/5573601758/ The Pale King is a novel concerned with meaning and purpose in the 20th and 21st Centuries....
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Why I love my Kindle Keyboard
Earlier this month, Amazon released a collection of new Kindles. One of the new Kindles is the Kindle Paperwhite, a front-lit e-ink multi-touch Kindle with one of the crispest displays Amazon has yet...
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Naked As a Caveman, Except for the Tools
Today’s guest post comes from Jason Braun, a poet, mixed media artist, and musician from the St. Louis, MO area. Check out Jason’s web site at jasonandthebeast.com. The October issue of Wired Magazine...
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Friday Reads: “The Culture of the Copy” and “Commodity Publishing,...
Because I collect all my longform reading material on Fridays, I thought I’d start a weekly column where I link to one or two of my favorite articles I found throughout the week. There was a lot of...
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How self-help books have changed the way we think
Zombie finds self-help | flickr user e_monk The “self-help” book has changed how we think, and many readers are OK with that. Here are some of my thoughts on why. Over the last year, I’ve read a lot of...
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Friday Reads: “T. S. Eliot: Employee of the Month” and “The Argument For eBooks”
Last week, I started a weekly “friday reads” roundup of my favorite articles discovered online. I quite like this feature, so for now, it’s here to stay! There were several engaging articles this week...
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Tim Ferriss: 4-Hour-Hero or just another asshat?
By Jason Braun and Kevin Eagan Tim Ferriss is a polarizing figure. Some see him as a brilliant salesman and self-promoter while others think he is overhyped and self-absorbed. I fall into the latter...
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Quote: “a book is a place,” Joe Meno on books and imagination
This week’s quote comes from an essay in The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books. The essay, by Joe Meno, is called “A Book is a Place,” and this quote summarizes the author’s main...
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