Friday Links
Atlanta ranks as the 8th “most literate” US city in this year’s rankings. Last year we were ranked “forth” according to an AJC tweet. I wonder if that cost us.
Big Publishing unveils a new site Bookish for discovering new books. That they publish.
Amazon patents a system of digital book lending. Interesting.
The Oxford American asks, “Why Teach Faulkner’s Masterpiece?” , Absalom, Absalom. (Read about my history with Absalom, Absalom here.)
Interesting: “Moby Dick is one of my favorite books, but let’s face it — it’s a hot mess,” says Evison. “If I had software that said, ‘Look, maybe this four-page essay on scrimshaw isn’t gonna fly with your 28 to 40 male [demographic],’ what would we have lost with that? Sometimes, you know, it’s just got to be a little bit of a dictatorship.”
Need some non-fiction? Check out this list of 102 spectacular non-fiction stories from 2012
The internet responds to a crappy new cover for Sylvia Plath’s classic The Bell Jar
Great moments in grammar pedantry: on splitting infinitives
Harry Potter characters took to Twitter to critique this year’s Super Bowl
February 8, 2013 9:49 am 3 Comments
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By Beth Sheets, February 8, 2013 @ 12:45 pm
Most literate cities – I’m not all that surprised to see that Arizona didn’t make the list. Also makes me glad to have decided to pursue graduate school in Oregon!
By Erin Regan, February 9, 2013 @ 1:54 am
It’s been a rough week for new book covers! The Bell Jar is one of my favorites. I know it has gone through a lot of redesigns over the years, but it’s not great when a misleading cover distracts from the content.
By James Attwood, February 9, 2013 @ 6:05 pm
Surprise, surprise (not)! Arizona doesn’t make the list. I suppose it’s hard to make the list when high school English now only goes through what I had to have down by 8th grade.
Sometimes I wonder how much I’ll be able to make a difference once I start teaching.