Arts and Letters Daily
- On Michael OakeshottMichael Oakeshott, author of dense, intricate works of philosophy: not a guy you’d expect to write pungent aphorisms. And yet.. more» […]
- On solitary confinementOn being and not being. If Husserl and Heidegger are right, there is no difference between solitary confinement and death. A phenomenologist’s prison plight… more» […]
- Gabriel García Márquez obituariesGabriel García Márquez, novelist, journalist, friend of left-wing causes, master of magical realism, is dead. He was 87… NY Times … AP … Reuters … BBC … Kakutani … Guardian … Edmund White … Telegraph … Independent … WaPo … LA Times … Boston Globe … New Yorker … WSJ … Paul Berman … Financial Times … Peter Carey … […]
- Twittter, Facebook, and the novelHere’s what confronts contemporary novelists: A social landscape changing so rapidly that it defies representation. Must be time for a new literary movement… more» […]
- Thomas Piketty, capital manLike a wonky heir to Tocqueville, Thomas Piketty has arrived in America. He has data, charts, and a plan to stem the country’s “drift toward oligarchy”… more» […]
- Cass Sunstein, nudge in chiefCass Sunstein, mild-mannered, deliberative, professorial, occasionally a bureaucrat. Is he the most dangerous man in America?… more» […]
- Prose of psychoanalysisFreudian writers talk of works, papers, articles, lectures, and contributions, but not, for the most part, essays. Then there’s Adam Phillips… more» […]
- E.O. Wilson, Q&AE.O. Wilson has only one functional eye, the left. And from an early age he focused it on little things… more» […]
- Grand Unified Theory of Female PainWe romanticize illness and idealize suffering; we glamorize female pain. The wounded woman might be a stereotype, but she’s still wounded… more» […]
The Local Book News
- Pandora sued by record labels for copyright infringementThis will be interesting to watch. If songs recordered before 1972 are in fact protected by state laws, this could be big. And it may not just be for music, it may end up applying to books and other creative works, as well. Pandora has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by major record […]
- Antibiotics Have Turned Our Bodies From Gardens Into BattlefieldsThis is a really good interview by Wired with Microbiologist Martin Blaser about his new book and the overuse of antibiotics. We’re in the midst of an extinction crisis, and it doesn’t involve Siberian tigers. Microbiologist Martin Blaser of New York University School of Medicine says that many species of germs are disappearing from our […]
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinThere’s a new story at Old Musty Books referencing an Interview with Gabrielle Zevin. Thirty-nine year old widower A.J. Fikry is an unlikely romantic hero: He’s cranky, he drinks too much, his bookstore is failing and don’t get him started on the state of publishing. He’s also at the center of Gabrielle Zevin’s new novel, […]
- As whiskey market consolidates, a skirmish in TennesseeMarch 27th was International Whiskey Day. As the years go by, multinational corporations have made the name of this ‘holiday’ more appropriate than it was the last year. Here’s the story: Happy International Whiskey Day — a day with a name that gets more appropriate with each passing year as multinational corporations continue to strengthen […]
- Check your Email: Amazon Partial Refund from SettlementOld Musty Books has a reminder post that if you are an Amazon customer, you probably have a partial credit in your email for books purchased from Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins Publishers LLC., Hachette Book Group, Macmillan and Penguin Group of Pearson. You don’t have to actually check your email, as the credit will be […]
