If you had to list your favorite top ten books of all time, could you do it? it’s hard to create a list like that. I recently stumbled upon this Web site that lists famous authors and their favorite books. It’s called The Top Ten. […]
I’m excited to get started on a new, well-received, biography of George Washington. It’s called Washington: A Life, written by Ron Chernow, whose last book was a wonderful biography of Alexander Hamilton. Here is a synopsis of the book, published at Barnes and Noble: “In […]
I’m a great fan of Bruce Chatwin’s writing. I’ve read all of his works aside from one of his “novels” (fans will know why I put that in quotes) as well as two biographies, so I was excited to learn that a volume of his […]
An interesting bit of blblio news from ABC News: “The world’s biggest book fair in Frankfurt is used to seeing some big book launches, but none came larger than a six-by-nine-foot (two-by-three-metre) Atlas unveiled on Wednesday. “Yours for a cool 100,000 dollars, Australian publisher Gordon […]
It seems that Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel is all the rage…even though it hasn’t even been published yet. The New York Times has already published a lengthy review (by Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus no less), while other publications across the world weigh in as […]
Preliminary research is showing that people who buy e-readers are actually reading more than they ever have before. This recent article from the Wall Street Journal highlights some of the most recent data. From the story: “A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and […]
One of the more fascinating books I’ve read over the past few years regarding the subject of new media is The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information by Richard Lanham. An emeritis professor of English literature, Lanham looks at today’s […]
Check out this link for a photo collection at Slate called “Remember Reading on Paper?” This photo of James Dean was taken at the Winslow farm in Indiana in 1955. He is reading James Whitcomb Riley. There seems to be so much discussion in the […]
I happened to come across this article recently while browing the Web. I like the line of thinking it presents into the debate about the loss of the printed word–the idea that our personal libraries are a means of mapping our mental journies. The article […]