Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Entry Text John Green gets way more attention than the average young adult author. I’m not sure if it’s because of the major success of The Fault in Our Stars and its film adaptation, his other books or his YouTube channel. That means that a lot of different people are going to have different opinions…
The founder of Facebook is reading a book every two weeks, and discussing it with the Facebook community. And his next selection is The Player of Games, one of the amazing Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Writes Zuckerberg: This is a change of pace from all the recent social science books. Instead, it’s a…
Photo Beth Hoeckel’s “Lips” (2013). Credit Image from “Babe” Last year, the pop star Rihanna posted a series of photographs on Instagram from a shoot for the French magazine Lui. In the photos, she’s sporting striking tan lines — and little else. Instagram objected, and the photos were deleted. Shortly after, Rihanna posted another image…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content I’ve gone all in with the Indie publishing movement – I’ve released three books myself and I’ve done relatively well with all of them. But the fact still remains that the entire business of books is stacked against the Indie author….
A year after Bryan Fuller began developing an adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s modern mythological novel American Gods for Starz, the network has greenlit the series. Fans are already miscasting the main character, a mixed-race loner named Shadow who discovers he’s descended from a very cynical ancient god. The series will see Fuller sharing showrunner and writing credit…
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Power needs a critic. But a paradox mars criticism of the ascendant technological elite who are seeking to remake our lives: The people who understand technology well enough to criticize it tend to adore it uncritically; the critics are often Luddites who struggle with their toasters. It is notable, then, when a techie insider steps…
*Flips table.* [Editor’s Note: A reminder to head off certain comments. In our post “We Will No Longer Be Promoting HBO’s Game of Thrones,” I wrote “from this point forth there will no longer be recaps, photo galleries, trailers, or otherwise promotional items about Game of Thrones on The Mary Sue. The newsworthiness of other…
Int3gr4/Wikimedia CommonsIn Columbia University’s student newspaper, four members of the school’s student Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board call on professors to be more sensitive when teaching provocative or controversial material… such as the Roman classical poet Ovid. Ovid is best known for The Metamorphoses, a 15-book narrative poem that covers more than 250 mythological stories. Written entirely…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 If you are a white man and you think you do not own one of these books, try looking under your bed, it’s probably there. 1. Shogun, James Clavell 2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut 3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 4. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 5. A collection of…