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So here we are, Mr. Kindle. I pre-ordered you the moment you were announced. You’re waiting at home for me, still not removed from your box. I currently own 26 books in the Kindle format, many of which I’ve greatly enjoyed reading on the iPhone. (Though I did regret a couple of those purchases, but [...]

So, I’m sitting here staring at my brand-new copy of Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. In case you couldn’t guess, he’s not in favor of it.
There’s a long quotation on the inside flap from author J.M. Coetzee, author of The Lives of Animals that ends like this:
… anyone who, after reading Foer’s book, continues [...]

Just some really big paintings of books. From an article in/on print.
h/t – A Parker

The Henry Ransom at U of Texas just got a million more subscribers to their blog.
The Center just became the home of the tragically late David Foster Wallace’s archives, and they’ve unpacked his books, and started making a list of all the words he circled in his dictionary.

The New Yorker is more than flush with great critical writing. Well, this is a list of lists (some are decade-spanning, too) from those wonderful writers.
I’m trying to tell you it’s a dream come true. Get over there. Click around. Get lost for a few hours.
In fact, to encourage you, here’s my list of the [...]

The Rest Is Noise is Alex Ross‘s big, fat book about 20th century music. Classical music, to be precise. It’s a huge book, in it’s scope as well as it’s impact. Politics, revolutions, the connections of wars and operas and prejudices and composers. It’s like opening my eyes to a world of relations of which [...]

So, this quest for a better way of eating got kicked into high gear when I picked-up Mark Bittman‘s newest book, Food Matters. Bittman will be familiar to some as the author of How to Cook Everything, AKA in our house as the big, yellow cookbook with no pictures.
Food Matters is exactly the book I [...]

“Everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best … But cheer up, it’s fun in the end.”
- 2666, Roberto Bolaño