Readings, Rated
Marginal Writing in the News
On the Guardian Books Blog today, Daniel Kalder posted about all the different kinds of marginal scrawls he encountered in the library books at the University of Texas. He explores the idea of book margins as tiny dialectics. “This invisible dullard was misreading it so he could brag to an unseen audience: ‘I know better.’”
Incidentally, I tried my boyfriend’s copy of the 33 1/3 Celine Dion book that he’s teaching next sememster, and I felt like I was arguing with him the whole time even though his notes were all lines and question marks. What’s up with that, Daniel Kalder?
I’d never heard of the Celine Dion book before reading this post. Followed the link to Powell’s and now I have to get this book!
I’m one of the Celine h8ters who secretly likes her.
OMG you should! It’s so interesting because it does a sociological analysis of her voice. And it somehow works. Now if only they would do one for Il Divo.
PS I just checked out your blog. It’s so rad!