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Nash’s 2010
“It’s my no-longer-secret-shame that I don’t get to read for pleasure. Which is not to say that I don’t get pleasure from reading, but all my reading is professional…” Richard…
George Orwell’s 1940
For more than two years now the Orwell Prize has been blogging George Orwell’s diaries, in real time, seventy years to the day that each entry was originally penned. They…
The Man Who Loved Books (and Maps) Too Much
It was recently reported that Rare-book thief and subject of Allison Hoover Bartlett’s The Man Who Loved Books Too Much Richard Gilkey, who was released from prison in 2005, was…
From Exuberant Hanging Gardens
Leslie Williams is a fine poet, skillful and smart. She takes a range of topics I find by themselves repelling or uninteresting (suburban life, nature, flowers, gardening, Thomas Jefferson, the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Big Picture’s annual year in review make the years worth living. Map collages! Item: Chinese scientists want you to walk through walls. This is what it looks like when…
Thirty-One John D. MacDonald Titles and Taglines
Nostalgia, we have agreed, is embarrassing. Maybe even reactionary. The notion that some fading aspect of this or that material culture—usurped by the web—is lost, and that that is a…
What John Ruskin Thinks Of Us
“For when we are interested in the beauty of a thing, the oftener we can see it the better; but when we are interested only by the story of a…
Vice Fiction
I haven’t followed Vice magazine in a long time. I used to pick it up at the video store, The Naked Eye in the Lower Haight back before it closed…
Sam Anderson’s Marginalia
Once more from The Millions “Year In Reading:” Sam Anderson shares his marginalia. I particularly like what he wrote in the margins of a certain Twitter-referencing page in Franzen’s Freedom:…
Latest on the Digital Public Library of America
“There is great promise in the digital future for libraries,” says John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard…