“In these times of increasing government emphasis on children’s reading and their resultant educational attainment, surely the closure of public libraries, reduced book spend, limited opening hours and the compulsory redundancy of librarians have had a direct and negative impact on this aspiration?”
Tag: 09.22.13
Forget Sports – The Real Replay Action Is Online
“No matter how trivial the present, the replay Web can remix it into something significant. The instant replays are starting to become my favorite part of the Web, since the reactions to and commentary on the news often tend to be more interesting than the news itself.”
Everything About The Emmys, Live-Blogged
In case you want to trace back real-time reactions but don’t want to wade through the #emmys hashtag on Twitter.
Making School Architecture Freaking AWESOME Again
“Architects are exposing infrastructure, including electrical systems and piping, and embedding QR codes into columns so students can learn about the building’s history with a curious scan with a smartphone.”
Poet Withdraws From Major Prize, Admitting He Plagiarized
CJ Allen: “I accept that I did plagiarise certain poems (although it was genuinely not my intention to deceive), and that I am withdrawing from the competition because of the intolerable strain of the recent, negative publicity.”
How Did Ed Ruscha’s Gas Station Photos, Once Scorned, Turn So Iconic?
“Ruscha’s books have been widely influential among artists, who have adopted their disaffected look. But their influence also extends to architects: Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi and Frank Gehry.”
Hey Book Censors, What’s Your Problem With Happy Endings?
“Novels — especially ones featuring adventurous, pleasure seeking heroines — were looked at askance. They could tempt a woman to escape the house and explore life on her own terms — and where would it all end?”
Backstage Drama Before The Met Opera’s Opening Night
The new production of Eugene Onegin that’s opening the new season “has taken an unusually precipitous tumble from sure thing … to headache-plagued.”