books

More thoughts on e-publishing

Read on for an excerpt from a recent The Chronicle of Higher Education article on taking the peer review process to blogs, featuring Professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin from UC-San Diego.

My trip to Madeira was a lot like my leave, low expectations and quietly, immeasurably pleasurable. That's the moral of the story: the circumference has to be small for the experience to be deep.

Why is the book the standard of literacy? Books for the masses are a relatively new phenomenon. It's not they were handed down to Moses with the tablets. Yet declining literacy is equated with declining book readership. It's not the same thing.

"Never Not the Oldest Person in the Place That I Am":

Bob Stein, Intellectual Style Icon