Google will launch the iriver Story HD this weekend. It will be the first e-reader built to be fully integrated with Google Books.
Google to launch e-reader
Sullivan on the Animal Mind
John Jeremiah Sullivan has a new essay about animal consciousness – and specifically our understanding thereof – in Lapham’s Quarterly. This effort is more serious and decidedly less terrifying than Sullivan’s last essay about animal agency, “Violence of the Lambs.”
Theories of the Brain
Recommended (Heavy) Reading: A mind-bending interview with Kathinka Evers at 3:AM Magazine on the increasingly important field of "neuroethics." Neuroethics is, in essence, "the study of the questions that arise when scientific findings about the brain are carried into philosophical analyses, medical practice, legal interpretations, health and social policy." Welcome to the 21st century.
2016 Guggenheim Fellows Announced
Earlier today, the Guggenheim Foundation announced this year's Fellows, and the names on their list include a few that Millions readers will recognize. On the fiction side, there's contributor Laila Lalami along with Year in Reading alumni Jess Row and Jesse Ball, while in nonfiction and poetry, there's Amanda Petrusich along with Adam Kirsch, Chris Kraus and Deborah Landau. The winners each receive a sizeable cash grant.
Pinckney and Smith from the NYPL
“Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.”
Recommended weekend reading: Walker Percy's "Bourbon, Neat."
Cross Off and Move On
Equipment for today's lunch hour: 1) somewhere sunny and out-of-doors to sit; 2) failing that, a gazebo or other shelter from inclement weather; 3) a printout of Deborah Eisenberg's latest short story, from the current NYRB; 4) undivided attention.
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