New York Times Corrections: “An article in Weekend on Friday about free online audiobooks of works in the public domain referred incorrectly to Arlene Goldbard, a writer who discussed on her blog her first experience with such recordings. She is based in Richmond, Calif., not New York.”
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Tanenhaus Will Travel Up a Kurtzian River Very Soon
Vanity Fair: “Not only are the people at the Times aware of their new readers’ likely lack of constancy, they’re paranoid about it. In some sense, it’s the central obsession at the Times, the driver of the place, this very un-Timesian concern with what people are thinking about it, as the paper increasingly becomes a hot topic in the national court of public opinion. And it’s a crazy court. Every politically and emotionally addled information consumer wants to convict the Timesof something.” (via Books Inq.)
Circle the Wagons, Online Comic Cohorts
Danger Mouse Would Be Proud
Renee at Book of the Day has an intriguing project. If you’ve read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, she’s set up a phone number where you can offer your thoughts. From here, the results either go into some catchy hip-hop montage that you’ll hear playing in all the clubs or a podcast — I don’t really know which. But it does sound groovy and experimental. And I direct all interested parties Renee’s way.
List of Potential New Categories for Pluto
- Small fry
- Midget
- Neptune’s younger, not so nice cousin
- Left-handed
- Oppressed minority
- The planet that nobody talks about
- The guy in the back
- The planet that flies coach
- The planet with one testicle
- Handicapped heavenly body
- The planet on welfare
- Billy Barty in space
- Take this planet. Please.
- Leftovers.