That’s the title of today’s post from Tyler Cowen both at his blog and as a guest blogger at Penguin. His point seems to be that the book you’ve read is likely not the best book you could be reading, and by passing it down the line (via donation or BookMooch or leaving it somewhere [...]
Penelope Trunk has an excellent post on how she got her current favorite mentor, to complement her other posts on the topic. As a forty-odder among twenty-somethings, I find that my mentors are not just the professors, but my peers who have longer experience of being a student, being at SILS, being connected to many other students who [...]
Tagged fiction, fiction writing, Forty-Odder, index cards, libraries, mentoring, penelope trunk, Susie Bright, TheAdjectivalCassidyAn iSerenity soundscape for when you want to hear the quiet.
Tagged libraries, Oddments, SoundscapeThis Design Observer post about who is reading all those books went over some familiar ground (“explosion of information” = “ignorance about more things”) and elicited some good comments. The crux of the post was to answer this question: Why keep on with the work of traditional publishing when the Internet would seem to provide [...]