U of M press is going all digital for monographs. The comments on this article indicate, predictably, that some people think it’s a great idea and others think it’s the end of the publishing world as we know it. I am in favor of digital publication, if it means that books will be cheaper and/or . . . → Read More: Michigan going digital
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I just discovered this really cool site called Bookmooch. Basically, you enter books you don’t want, and trade them with other people. Every book you send gives you a point, which lets you request a book from someone else. I got rid of a book of 4 Ibsen plays and received a book on Flash. . . . → Read More: Bookmooch: Another service you might like Steven Poole is offering his book Trigger Happy as a free .pdf. In Part I of Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson outlines various ways in which media have become more complex in the last several decades, and begins to argue that this complexity has caused a change in the way people think, leading to higher IQs and problem-solving abilities. Some of the more compelling . . . → Read More: Everything Bad Part I K.W. Jeter’s Noir is a dystopic vision of the future, where capitalism has run its logical course, and copyright law is so extreme that the smallest infringement is met with worse-than-lethal force, where the perpetrator’s spinal column and the smallest part of his brain is preserved to allow a minimal amount of consciousness to feel . . . → Read More: Noir It occurs to me that I have never publically explained the title of this blog. Many of you have probably guessed, but it comes from Blake, for whom I developed a…what…infatuation? affinity?…in college that has haunted me since. In “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” he has a few section entitled “A Memorable Fancy”. Here’s one . . . → Read More: A Memorable Fancy A friend just emailed me and told me that David Foster Wallace has a new book of short stories coming out this week. Although I still have to finish the book on infinity, I think I will buy the new one for myself for my birthday. . . . → Read More: New DFW |
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