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Remember when William S. Burroughs was featured in a Nike commercial? Neither do I, but fortunately for us the internet does. Here it is, in all its confounding beauty. Or maybe… Read more »
Remember when William S. Burroughs was featured in a Nike commercial? Neither do I, but fortunately for us the internet does. Here it is, in all its confounding beauty. Or maybe… Read more »
Lots of people consider annotation one of the more exciting opportunities for the digital reading community. Annotation is nothing new, of course, but in terms of putting it to use… Read more »
Maybe you had the day off yesterday? Maybe like us you had exactly 123 things you wanted to read before the workweek started again. But maybe you’re also pressed for… Read more »
Swann’s Way, the first in Marcel Proust’s seven book volume In Search of Lost Time, was first published in 1913. Beginning today, The Morgan Library & Museum is commemorating the… Read more »
The word “whale” occurs 1,685 times in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. “Elijah” is there 15 times, “Ahab” 512, and “harpoon” 256 times. I know this not from dutiful reading, but because… Read more »
Below is an ad that displayed on the Huffington Post earlier this week. Ignore the top and focus on the bottom portion, that reads “Teachers HATE Him!!” Have a close… Read more »
A statement on Teri Buhl’s Twitter profile claims that “No Tweets are Publishable.” Buhl, an investigative journalist covering finance and Wall Street, is now threatening to sue a lawyer for… Read more »
Earlier this week a certain Seattle company acquired what may well become a very important piece of the future ebook market: a patent that enables digital “lending.” Geekwire explains… Read more »
Via Open Culture, here’s a recording of Walter Kaufmann delivering a lecture at Princeton titled “Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy” in 1960. Kaufmann, a renowned scholar who championed Friedrich… Read more »
Graywolf Press, the Minneapolis-based nonprofit publisher of Linda Gregg, Jane Kenyon, D.A. Powell, Tomas Transtromer, among many others, is seeking funding for a new website. The press is asking for… Read more »