March 2012
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Your Brain on Fiction →
oliveryeh:
“The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated. Keith Oatley, an emeritus professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto (and a published novelist), has proposed that reading produces a vivid simulation of reality, one that “runs...
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12 Great Articles that Inspired Films →
theatlantic:
tetw:
A Tetw reading list
****One we forgot**** Four Good Legs Between Us by Laura Hillenbrand - Seabiscuit
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner - The Insider Death of an Innocent by Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild The Muse of Coyote Ugly Saloon by Elizabeth Gilbert - Coyote Ugly Racer X by Kenneth Li Rafael - The Fast and the Furious The Return of Superfly by Mark Jacobson...
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“It’s a free country. People can do whatever they want within the law, and even...”
– Jonathan Franzen, who else?
First, the Oprah Winfrey book club was too plebeian, now Twitter is irresponsible. I wonder what Franzen thinks of A Void by Georges Perec, which does not contain the letter ‘E’.
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Lean Back 2.0, a blog about reading on tablets... →
(Er, was there ever a Lean Back 1.0 or 1.5?)
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NYT: Slate to launch a monthly book review. →
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““What sort of chap was Dean?”
“Well. De mortuis, and all...”
– Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise.
Because douchey people die and I always have conflicting feelings. I mean, they were once babies and toddlers, and their deaths are devastating to their families… 