Jun 18, 2012 @ 12:21:00 am
In response to the rise of author productivity apps—like the ominous “write or die,” which deletes words if you stop typing for more than 45 seconds—Jenny Diski makes a case for slow writing.
Grappling with the fact that “much of the great old children’s material, like so much of the great old adult material, is either racist to the core or at least has seriously racist bits,” Stephen Marche wonders if there’s an acceptable way to read these books to your kids.
Goodreads tracks the “anatomy of a book discovery," through the Goodreads stats of Charles Duhigg's book The Power of Habit. The