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March 15, 2008
Curiosities
- The Economist's nifty, new(?) culture mag More Intelligent Life is putting together guides to the best critics, including those who cover books; film; dance, art, and classical music, and rock music. Scott has performed a similar exercise for book reviewers, as well.
- Polite magazine: "Where Are They Now? A visit with Encyclopedia Brown"
- The estimable New York Sun books section follows our lead in adding a review archive.
- Nextbook asks: Where have all Bernard Malamud's readers gone?
- Vroman's, a legendary Southern California independent bookstore and the employer of Millions contributor Patrick, has been named Bookseller of the Year by PW.
- Richard Russo:"My fictional Eliot [Spitzer] would be complex, would contain paradoxes. He would not be a hypocrite. My Eliot would believe with his whole heart in his crusades against the corrupt and the powerful and the privileged, even as he worked studiously to undermine his legacy. Fiction can accommodate such paradoxes, provided they're explained."
- An open letter to Steve Jobs pleading for Apple to create an iPod optimized for "a best-of-breed reading experience." (via)
- One of our most anticipated books, Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes won't be out in English for a while yet, but a new translation into German offers an opportunity for another review to trickle out.
- There are 1,000 Places to See Before You Die and 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, but forget all that and "Read this column before you die."
- Editor @ 6:19 PM ~
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Jobs' comments always strike me as funny, but the debate itself seems funnier; both the iPhone and the iPod Touch can display .pdfs, so they're already quite good ebook readers. The digital version of my collection, in fact, was on the iPhone just a week or so after the device had found its way to stores.
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Will Entrekin @ March 17, 2008 2:03 AM
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