Amazon created an “Election Heat Map” to tally the number of “red” and “blue” books sold across the nation, and the count is updated hourly. The results are somewhat surprising to those who believe liberals read more than conservatives. (Perhaps liberals frequent more independent bookstores?) At the time of this writing, “red” books are favored by a margin of 7%.
Election Heat Map: Book Edition
Maryland College Books “Cruise”
After heavy rains exacerbated a mold problem in two dorms and made some students sick, St. Mary's College of Maryland has 240 students living aboard the Sea Voyager, a cruise ship about the length of a football field now docked at the school's southern Maryland campus.
Interview with David Bajo
An interview with the author David Bajo, on his new novel Panopticon: "I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of privacy, especially how our society constantly seeks ways to invade it technologically, how we consistently undermine it by happily participating in digital omniscience, yet how we are outraged by the pain that technology and that desire sometimes cause."
Old-Fashioned
“And now, as an adult, I love nothing more than curling up with a good book, closing my eyes, breathing in through my nostrils, keeping my eyes closed and not reading yet continuing to draw in oxygen for hours, and, thanks to my fetishized olfactory associations for printed and bound matter, becoming sexually aroused.” On the scent that no e-reader can ever replace.
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Women’s Artistic Genius
Over at Public Books, Katie Fitzpatrick writes that Dana Spiotta's Innocents and Others is a novel on women’s artistic genius. Pair with Jason Arthur’s review of the novel.
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“Silent” Reading
When you read silently, are you really reading silently? Or, as some researchers hypothesized in a recent study, are you “making ‘sound’ in your head?”
“New” Zora Neale Hurston
The Chronicle of Higher Education analyzes three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston never before reprinted.
Reviews of Man Booker Longlist
Last week, we provided excerpts for several of the titles on the Man Booker longlist. This week, The New Yorker has helpfully rounded up reviews of the titles.
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TQC Launches E-Book Series
The Quarterly Conversation is kicking off its new "Long Essays" e-book series with Lady Chatterley's Brother: Why Nicholson Baker Can't Write About Sex, and Why Javier Marias Can.
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I don’t think this means conservatives read more than liberals. I think it just means conservatives read more propaganda than liberals. Liberals like their fiction written by Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Michael Chabon, or other people usually found in the actual fiction and literature section, while conservatives like their fiction written by Fox News journalists and Republicans.
(That’s maybe the harshest thing I’ve ever said politically, but it’s also completely true.)
That’s interesting, Kati. I would have said liberals get their fiction from CNN.