Archives: Reading
Pedanticism alert: Video interview with Harold Bloom
On the occasion of the publication of Bloom’s The Anatomy of Influence, the NYT’s Sam Tannehaus interviews the master. Sends me to the bookshelves …
Reading the long form in The Atavist
Those who read me here know I love technology. Those who know me also know I love to read. There was a time I wanted to be a writer, even thought of myself as one. Now I’m satisfied being a reader, and a reader about and on technology is particularly…
Speak, Muse!
One of the podcasts I listen to regularly … Radiolab from WNYC. (Free on iTunes.) This week, among several stories on making deals with yourself to bring about the outcome you seek, an extended interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, who tells us about how she finds the one 1% pearl out…
It’s not my fault. We are victims of “confluence.”
Not often that these brief interviews turn contentious, but this one with Abby Joseph Cohen at Goldman is an exception. One excerpt: Do you feel any responsibility for the economic meltdown of 2008, which you failed to foresee? That’s an odd question to be asking me. Because? I did not…
A few thoughts about Saturday’s shooting
I thought George Packer at The New Yorker had provided the last word for me in his post, It doesn’t matter why he did it. But TIME’s Steven James Snyder offered these words in setting up Jon Stewart’s intro last night: “He says he’s just a goofy dork on a…