The Most Overrated Books of 2011 according to NY Daily News, and Steve Jobs is included?
Most Overrated Books
Blogs Worth Reading
Largehearted Boy has put out an updated installment of his “Blogs to Read.” This year, he modified his approach to include collectively authored sites, “to better include the collaborative websites I read every day.” The Millions is included as are a number of other excellent sites.
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Stories in Space
Recommended Reading: On new posters from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and space travel’s place in storytelling. Dominic Smith asks why there aren’t more stories in space.
Place to Place
“Now the lattice that connects us is digitally immediate we travel all the more, but we’ve lost this thrill of adventure. It’s oddly touching to read a novel where journeys are so inherently exciting, and it makes the book both consummately funny and poignantly elegiac.” On the novel Changing Places by David Lodge.
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Literary Friendships
Emily Smith writes on literary friendships throughout history at Ploughshares.
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Reel Results
Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels analyzed two thousand screenplays for their representation of gender and age. Check out their data here. Pair with a recent piece from our own Bill Morris on the Hollywood biopic.
Sherwood Anderson Read by the Greats
The Library of America celebrates the publication of Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories by posting audio recordings of nine famous writers reading ten of Anderson’s famous works. Hop on over to hear readings by Charles Baxter, Siri Hustvedt, Ben Marcus, Rick Moody, and Patricia Hempl.
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Useable Objects
Recommended Reading: This piece from The Atlantic on Marie Kondo and the “privilege of clutter.” While you’re at it, go and read our own Janet Potter’s experience with Kondo’s wildly popular The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
Joshua Cohen’s Epic
Joshua Cohen, author of the just-published meganovel Witz, dispenses provocations in The New York Observer: “The targets might be Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander… When I started this book, I wanted to sleep with their wives. By the time I finished, I wanted to sleep with their mothers.”
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The list was quite interesting and I do agree with some of the picks (including Steve Jobs) but then Mr. Nazaryan had to go and put this statement at the end of the article: “If you disagree with the above, by all means tell me how/why I am wrong. Not that I ever am.” Call me over-sensitive but that statement sounds plain arrogant to me regardless of Mr. Nazaryan’s reputation. if you are going to invite people into a discussion on why they agree or disagree with you why put the additional disclaimer “Not that i ever am.” Seems like his made up his mind so what’s the point of us even discussing why we agree or disagree with him? Waste of time.
That line was a joke! Nazaryan has a sense of humor. Enjoy it!