A Nation Hard to Short
A New Yorker article by Nicholson Baker, A New Page, Can the Kindle really improve the book?
His answer is no. He finds a number of faults, the principal one being the screen.
“The problem was not that the screen was in black-and-white; if it had really been black-and-white, that would have been fine. The problem was that the screen was gray. And it wasn’t just gray; it was a greenish, sickly gray. A postmortem gray. The resizable typeface, Monotype Caecilia, appeared as a darker gray. Dark gray on paler greenish gray was the palette of the Amazon Kindle.”
NYTimes Op-Ed Columnist, Roger Cohen, in an op ed piece entitled, A Nation Hard to Short, cites Warren Buffett who on MSNBC said, “It’s hard to short America in the long term.” Why is that? Because of “the enduring belief of millions in America as a transforming power.”
A WSJ column by Matthew Kaminski naming The Five Best Novels on Immigrants in America, in order Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin, Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep, Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies.
The Profiling Prof, James Taranto entering the Skip Gates James Crowley brouhaha while writing in his WSJ Blog.
And last, Lessons in justice and fairness from a no-nonsense historian, Robert Fisk writing today in the Independent about his friend, the historian Avi Shlaim.
