Tag: Reading

187 Results

| August 30, 2010

ways of jesting

When it first became common for college students to write on computers, researchers noticed some changes in the quality...

| August 23, 2010

gestures

Gestures from João Machado on Vimeo. Via swissmiss (in the comments to an earlier post), what we do with our hands...

| August 16, 2010

infinite gestures

Yeah, I know everybody read Infinite Jest last summer, but I didn’t. I had a book to write. Also this summer. So...

| July 21, 2010

sentenced to read

Come on, I’m an English professor, you think I’m not going to link to this? Rouse is one of thousands of offenders...

| July 16, 2010

slow reading

I hate it when this happens: I recently sent off the O-Lord-I-hope-it’s-finished manuscript of my book on reading...

| June 30, 2010

Peak Book

Will Self: The above leads me to suspect that we indeed may have passed that numinous — but for all that, real —...

| June 29, 2010

The Long Ships

Oh, how I love commendations of neglected or forgotten books. Michael Chabon beautifully praises one called The Long...