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01/31/07 // Blog Post from Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
Catologue Raisonne Jeffrey Toobin, a legal columnist over at the New Yorker, has written a piece about Google’s book scanning project and the legal challenges it faces. In a nutshell, two lawsuits are threatening the Google Book Search project, one is from a consortium of big name publishers who, curiously, are also Google’s partners in the project, and the other is from … continue reading » Topics: Books, Copyright, Writing
05/26/08 Short Blog Post
Blindness I was having a late night run through Apple’s movie trailer site when I discovered that there’s a movie coming out based on one of my favorite books — José Saramago’s Blindness. Ordinarily I would consider this horrible news, but … continue reading » Topics: Books, Movies
01/07/04 // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
David Foster Wallace on Infinity I’ve been reading David Foster Wallace’s new book1 Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity for a few days now and I’m happy to report that it’s everything you would expect from the author of Infinite Jest. And I mean that in the best way possible. Wallace tends to provoke strong sentiments among readers. As my friend Mike put … continue reading » Topics: Books, Future, Mathematics, Writing