Comments on: On the Media http://literago.org/uncategorized/on-the-media/ Literate Chicago Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:39:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: lee http://literago.org/uncategorized/on-the-media/#comment-172 lee Thu, 29 May 2008 15:40:42 +0000 http://literago.org/?p=451#comment-172 Something else to chew on would be Ursula LeGuin's essay "Staying Awake" in the <a href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081907" rel="nofollow">February 2008 Harpers</a> (unfortunately, it's locked away for online subscribers only). In it, she touches on this supposed decline of reading, arguing that readers have always been in the minority and that in the course of human history reading for pleasure is rarer still. She also argues that corporate capitalism and literature don't mix and that the coming death of mastodons like Borders could mean a revival in literary publishing. That's a severely simplified summary (and that's a lot of alliteration) but the full essay is well worth the search. And one fussy correction: On the Media is produced by WNYC not WBEZ. Something else to chew on would be Ursula LeGuin’s essay “Staying Awake” in the February 2008 Harpers (unfortunately, it’s locked away for online subscribers only). In it, she touches on this supposed decline of reading, arguing that readers have always been in the minority and that in the course of human history reading for pleasure is rarer still. She also argues that corporate capitalism and literature don’t mix and that the coming death of mastodons like Borders could mean a revival in literary publishing. That’s a severely simplified summary (and that’s a lot of alliteration) but the full essay is well worth the search.

And one fussy correction: On the Media is produced by WNYC not WBEZ.

]]> By: Mairead Case http://literago.org/uncategorized/on-the-media/#comment-164 Mairead Case Thu, 29 May 2008 04:38:21 +0000 http://literago.org/?p=451#comment-164 Something else to chew on: <a href="http://www.harpercollins.ca/invisiblearmies/" rel="nofollow">book trailers</a>. Video killed the radio star. Something else to chew on: book trailers. Video killed the radio star.

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