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.)

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.