Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Wrinkled brows ...

... New Granta Editor Offers Sweet Salve to Chapped Industry.

The plan this year was to play Maidstone in the Hamptons ...
Small wonder these people don't get it.

It helps that Mr. Freeman believes in the inevitability of books—even if, as he will lay out in his forthcoming manifesto for Scribner, The Tyranny of E-Mail, the Internet is engendering in the people who use it habits that distract them from reading.
I think John is on to something here, actually. And it's more to the point than the death-of-books chanting.

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