For Whom The Bell Tolls

Laura Bennett writes for Slate about how personal essays are taking over the internet. “I think there is just a very fine line between providing a platform for these writers and exploiting them,” says one editor.

It’s the end of July, and you know that means: we’re smack dab in the middle of reading-about-baseball season. Herewith, a selection of great baseball books, courtesy of Sports Illustrated.

The New Yorker’s book blog continues to host “Questioningly,” a so-called Twitter game show. The most recent installment featured the imagined Facebook status updates of literary figures, and was hosted by Ben Greenman. Who, might I add, is on a roll these days over at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency too.