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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by Nicholas Carr
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Detroit Fiction: On Rightsizing American Literature 33
Literature could not find itself in a better place from which to escape the confining and picayune interiority of the last half-century.
Tristram Shandy, Dilettante: Laurence Sterne and the Pleasures of Attention-Deficit Literature 5
Shandy makes the Cervantes/Fielding/Dickens picaresque look like a straight walk down a well-lit road. It is both a challenge to read and a sustained work of jumpy, distracted hilarity. Attention deficit, for Sterne, is not something to be feared in the reader — it is the basis for his process of composition.
The Millions Top Ten: June 2012 1
With four books graduating to our Half of Fame, we have a new number one, three debuts and one returning title on our list.
The Millions Top Ten: May 2012 2
A Millions favorite debuts on the list, and big changes are afoot next month.