In Person
November 26, 2010
John Updike, and the Curious Business of Sustaining Literary Reputations 0
by Bruce Cordingly
Melville apparently was the deceased writer Updike worried he would become — dead before he‘d died.
November 23, 2010
No Boys Allowed: A Book Club to Discuss Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom 18
by Edan Lepucki
I loved the idea of getting together to discuss a big book, one that people across the nation were also buying, and reading, and meeting to talk about. It felt like we were participating in a cultural moment–it was like getting a Cabbage Patch Kid in the 1980s. Plus, there would be snacks
November 17, 2010
Nuit Blanche Toronto: Finding Inspiration After the Sun Goes Down 0
by Andrew Saikali
My feelings have swung from amazement to irritation and back again. I’ve been bemused and bored. I’ve been caught up in curious crowds, and I’ve loathed the drunken hordes.
November 8, 2010
Among the Precocious 45,000: Meet Some of the Thousands of Kids Doing NaNoWriMo 11
by Laurel Berger
45,000 kids are writing novels for National Novel Writing Month. Thing is, the youngest of these literary hopefuls are still learning to read.
November 3, 2010
Marfa: Donald Judd’s Melancholy Monument 1
by Mark Roller
Judd is an artist who deserves our attention, but the degree of cultural canonization and institutional validation that has been conferred on his work at Marfa is commensurate with the very highest levels of achievement. Who decided that Judd’s legacy is that important?
October 29, 2010
Report from the Future of Reading: The Books in Browsers Conference 8
by Patrick Brown
It’s only through seizing the social reading moment, so to speak, that the publishers can hope to wrestle some measure of control back from the tech companies that have come to dominate their industry.
