Joshua Cohen wrote a novel with the Internet reading over his shoulder “Viewers at PCKWCK.com could comment, “heart” text as on Periscope, answer survey questions, and watch a tiny livestream camera of Joshua Cohen as he wrote and edited his story, a cigarette usually dangling out of his mouth—Hunter S. Thompson living in a Brooklyn … Read more
As part of it’s Chicago Ideas Week, a bunch of selected books was left on the the city trains for people to read while they commute. Called “Books on the L” people were able to read selected titles until they reached their destination. If the reader wants to chat about a particular book, they just … Read more
What is the latest you have ever returned a library book? I think mine was a whole summer when I was in Jr. High School, because it took that long for me to clean my room and find it. But one mysterious person that checked a couple of books out of the Portland State University … Read more
If you are a reader of a certain age you will remember going to the library and going through stacks of catalog cards looking for a book. You might have learned the dewy decimal system at the same time. Well the bell has tolled, those days are over. Online Computer Library Center, the last company … Read more
The last time a nonfiction writer won the Nobel Prize for literature was in 1953 by Winston Churchill. So this years winner, journalist Svetlana Alexievich comes as a welcome surprise. She is most famous for Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster where Alexievich interviewed the innocent people who watched as the Chernobyl … Read more