Gizmodo discovers that when you cancel a Kindle magazine subscription all the back issues that you’ve accumulated disappear.
The Kindle Will Disappear Your Old Magazines
Hollywood and the Brontes
USA Today suggests that Hollywood's love affair with Jane Austen is ebbing and, with film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights on the way, the bigwigs have moved on to the Brontes.
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Melatonin, Menthol Lights, Jungle Gyms
At Trickhouse's Back Room, Ian Ganassi lists life's essentials, along with a few I could do without.
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2011 PEN/Malamud Winner
Edith Pearlman takes the 2011 PEN/Malamud award in recognition of her short stories. Her most recent collection, her fourth, is Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories.
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Desire and Freedom
Recommended Reading: Can desire thrive without freedom? On the works of Margaret Atwood and Michel Houellebecq in The Atlantic. Our essay on Atwood’s vision of the future and review of Ben Jeffery’s Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism pair nicely.
“Back then, in 1992, it was Billy”
Recommended Reading: “Billy” by Sarah Braunstein.
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Rails both Real and Metaphorical
"America has always been built—and continues to be built—by those the establishment keeps invisible." Public Books runs the sixth installment of its "An Engineer Reads a Novel" series, this time taking on Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad and John Henry Days. We also recently reviewed the former, which has been blessed by both Oprah Winfrey and President Obama.
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Why Are Writers Paid So Little, and Programmers Paid So Much?
“And so despite my esteem for the high challenge of writing, for the reach of the writerly life, it’s not something anyone actually wants me to do. The American mind has made that very clear, it has said: ‘Be a specialised something — fill your head with the zeitgeist, with the technical — and we’ll write your ticket.’”
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You don’t “own” a thing with a Kindle. You’re licensed to use it. Remember the incident with the unapproved editions of George Orwell novels?
The more I hear about ebooks, ereaders and the like, the more I’m convinced I should stick Ye Olde Paper. Much simpler.