Miscellaneous links
My new favorite literature blog, not least for its decidedly anti-Franzen stance, is Scott Esposito’s Conversational Reading. Esposito takes a pretty global view and - a man after my own heart - he makes a lot of lists and does geeky things like photographic size comparisons between big books (see below). Highly recommended.
(Oh, and in case you’re wondering, looking at the Nádas book pictured below, yes, Susan Sontag has already gotten there and dashed off a superlative for it: “The greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century.”)
Paul Graham’s short essay on how we’re producing ever more addictive products and have to go to great lengths to pull ourselves away.
An article from the Atlantic about the design of the plastic coffee cup lid. A commenter sums up my feeling perfectly: “This is one of the reasons I enjoy the Atlantic so much - interesting articles I want to read about subjects I wasn’t aware I was interested in.”
Miscellaneous links
My new favorite literature blog, not least for its decidedly anti-Franzen stance, is Scott Esposito’s Conversational Reading. Esposito takes a pretty global view and - a man after my own heart - he makes a lot of lists and does geeky things like photographic size comparisons between big books (see below). Highly recommended.
(Oh, and in case you’re wondering, looking at the Nádas book pictured below, yes, Susan Sontag has already gotten there and dashed off a superlative for it: “The greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century.”)
Paul Graham’s short essay on how we’re producing ever more addictive products and have to go to great lengths to pull ourselves away.
An article from the Atlantic about the design of the plastic coffee cup lid. A commenter sums up my feeling perfectly: “This is one of the reasons I enjoy the Atlantic so much - interesting articles I want to read about subjects I wasn’t aware I was interested in.”
