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Reading Is Back. Yay! But Let’s Not Put Down Complicated Critiques Replaced By New Enthusiasm
That reading is now a social activity again… might seem cause for optimism. Yet D.J. Taylor regrets the passing of critical arbitration in matters of taste, and is at his most curmudgeonly when describing the “enthusiastic online amateur who protests his inability to ‘relate’ to the central character of the novel under discussion and imagines this to be the fault of the book”.
The Perils Of Writing About Sex In Your Fiction
“Should you use exotic euphemisms or anatomical detail? Should it be comical, tender or shocking? And what if your mum reads it? Three generations of writers reveal the pitfalls – and pleasures – of writing about erotic encounters.”
Ailing Seattle Bookstore Turns To Fans For Help (And They Do)
“Every time some mystery shop closes, people felt like they lost their shop and they wished their shop had said something. So we just decided to be the shop that asks for help.”
Publisher Mysteriously Pulls Book About The Church Of England Before Publication – Was It About The Secret Sex Lives Of Bishops?
Bloomsbury withdrew That Was the Church That Was, a look at the post-war decline of England’s established church by Guardian journalist Andrew Brown and sociologist Linda Woodhead, following a “legal complaint” about which the house would say nothing more. So naturally journalists began investigating …
Do Critics (Should They) Have Power? (Or Is It Illusion?)
“Criticism is not a matter of technique or form,” AO Scott writes, “so much as it is a matter of personality, of who you imagine is doing the talking.” But equally important is on whose behalf the talking is being done. Blog or trade? Alt-weekly or the paper of record? It matters a great deal.
Not Your Parents’ Library: Libraries Across America Have Reinvented Themselves
“There are three areas where libraries function as vibrant centers of America’s towns: technology, education, and community.”
Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Dominican Literary Prize, And Dominicans Are Angry
Why? “In a 2013 article published in the Spanish newspaper El País, Vargas Llosa called the ruling by the Dominican constitutional court that stripped many ethnic Haitians of their Dominican nationality a ‘legal aberration’ inspired by Hitler-era legal sentences that denied Jews German citizenship.”
How The Smithsonian Is Using Crowdsourcing To Transcribe History
“Launched in 2013, the project invites anyone with access to a computer to choose from a buffet of documents supplied by 14 of the Smithsonian’s libraries, archives and museums. Volunteers participate anonymously or create profiles, and each project comes with specific instructions. Participants read scanned pages and type their transcriptions into a field below.”
Authors Guild Appeals Google Books Ruling To US Supreme Court
“In 2013, US circuit judge Denny Chin dismissed an authors’ lawsuit against Google, saying its scanning of the books, and the ‘snippets’ of text it makes available to users, constituted fair use,” and in 2015, an appeals court agreed. “The American writers’ body is now asking the supreme court to hear its case, with a group of writers, publishers and copyright organisations backing its petition.”