- To paraphrase Groucho Marx, we’re going to speed things up here. If a blog readership orders a one-hour roundup, I’ll give it to them in twenty minutes. If they order a twenty minute roundup, I’ll give it them in ten minutes. If they order a ten minute roundup, I’ll give them my RSS feeds and let it work out for themselves. Time is limited. So here goes.
- Dan Green on the “marketplace of ideas” nomen. Since I have moved to New York, I have been contending more and more with people who view books as nothing more than a commodity and are not well-read and more taken with scarfing down canapes and free drinks at junkets than engaging with authors and books on even a remotely intellectual level. Even accounting for the reality that publishing is an industry, Dan’s words are well worth considering.
- Bill Benzon offers a provocative open letter to Steven Pinker about shared knowledge and stories.
- The Last Starfighter: The Musical. (via Jason Boog)
- On pumping out twenty books in six years. (via Slushpile)
- UC Santa Cruz plans to put its Heinlein archive online. I’d like to see more universities do this.
- Uncovered: A disturbing juxtaposition of Black Canary.
- You down with OED? Yeah, you know me. Crosswords, mothafuckahs!
- Tonight, 6:30 PM at the Bowery Poetry Club: Levi Asher and some other guy.
- Someone has stolen Erin O’Brien’s hat!
- Shame is the New Fame and related article.
- It appears that YA authors are using high school newspapers to market their books. I have a slight ethical problem with this, but there is currently no time to offer a lengthy argument. Perhaps later. (via Bookshelves of Doom)
- Timbaland on One Life to Live.
- I don’t see anything particularly wrong with the Harvard Classics approach to education, but is five minutes a day really enough time to take in a classic?
- And, finally, call me a prurient cad, but I’m extremely curious about the future of this man’s potency.
© 2007, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.
Ed do you feel that tradition has bee upturned by commodification? See my blog for more detailed version of the question. I’m taking a non-scientific survey.
Now that you’re a New Yorker, Ed, you should know that you’re competing with 10 10 WINS – “Give us 10 minutes and we’ll give you the world.” on your AM dial.