Quiver & Quill

I’ve had the pleasure of immersing myself in great literature and podcasts recently. This is mostly due to the many hours on the plane: reading books with eyes open, listening to podcasts with eyes closed. I’d like to share three things I’ve read recently.

“Everything we do, every new technology we make is either an extension of a fear or a desire,” Margaret Atwood, Beyond Faith and Reason Podcast with Bill Moyers.

“The great thing about broadcast is that it can bring one show to millions of people with unmatched efficiency, but it can’t do the opposite, bring millions of shows to one person each, yet that is exactly what the internet does so well,” Chris Anderson, The Long Tail.

“I write mainly for artists, fellow-artists and follow-artists. However, I could never explain adequately to certain students in my literature classes, the aspects of good reading– the fact that you read an artist’s book not with your heart (the heart is a remarkably stupid reader), and not with your brain alone, but with your brain and spine. “Ladies and gentlemen, the tingle in the spine really tells you what the author felt and wished you to feel,” Vladmir Nabokov.

*Image of a young Vladmir Nabokov: Citation.

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