“Some students swear by colourful mind maps. Others go for flash cards. The most common practice is rereading notes and highlighting the relevant material. … [But it] turns out that one technique stands head and shoulders above the rest …”
Tag: 04.07.11
The Joys Of Feel-Bad Theater
Ben Brantley: “An acridness hung in the air during the New Group’s revival of Wallace Shawn’s Marie and Bruce the other night, something I don’t often experience at the theater. It was the thick, curdled aura of an audience’s collective discomfort … that palpable unhappiness that arises when an audience feels utterly ill at ease with what’s happening onstage.”
The Aging Of Audiences Isn’t Always A Scary Prospect
“Whether they are buying music, listening to the radio, reading newspapers or watching television, media consumers are ageing even more quickly than the overall population. Rather than trying to reverse this trend by attracting younger people, many companies are attempting to profit from the [trend].” (After all, older consumers tend not to download.)
Stock Analyst Downgrades Dish Stock After Bockbuster Video Bid
“With an 8.6% same store sales decline in the third quarter of 2010, we are skeptical that the microeconomics of the more viable stores can be revamped simply by crossing-selling Dish Network or cloning Netflix’s strategy.”
Rare Joint Purchase Of Kafka Letters Brings New Material To Light
“The remarkable announcement this week by the Bodleian Library and the German Literary Archive at Marbach that they have agreed jointly to purchase a collection of more than 100 letters and postcards from Franz Kafka to his sister Ottla will cause great excitement amongst Kafka biographers and scholars.”
Long Lost Dr. Seuss Stories To Be Published In Book
Dr Seuss’s art director Cathy Goldsmith was on eBay when she stumbled across a sale for tearsheets from 1950s magazines, purporting to be stories by the author, who was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in 1904. She bought the stories, and discovered that the seller, dentist Charles Cohen, was a huge collector of “Seussiana” and an avid Seuss scholar.
A Small Press That Loses Money On Every Book Amazon Sells
“I should be grateful that I’ve been given the same space as the big boys to display my covers and my reviews. I should say thank you for the sale. But I don’t. Because each time I sell a book on Amazon, I lose money.”
Proof That Chicago Counts?
Chicago landed a perverse cultural honor and joined an exclusive club for which membership itself serves as a loud, international reminder that your city matters. In other words, we’re about to get our butts handed to us in a great big special-effects action picture. Toasted, flattened, manhandled, banged up, blown apart, brought down.”
As E-Book Piracy Goes Mainstream…
Or will it? “Customers who pay the $100-plus for e-readers such as the Kindle or Nook are especially loyal to authors and their rights.”
Borders Presents Restructuring Plan; Publishers Are Skeptical
“Borders presented a restructuring plan to its creditors on Wednesday that promised publishers and landlords a sleeker, more efficient company … But publishers characterized the plan as unrealistic and said they were more convinced than ever that Borders would be forced to sell itself or liquidate.”