I found an audio interview with Nam Le off of Bookninja that I will try and listen to someday. Le was a celebrated newcomer in 2008 with his short story collection, The Boat. I’ve read it and indeed a couple of the stories are noteworthy, particularly the first, the hallmark story “Love and Honor”. [...]
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Previous: Introduction, Right to Privacy (part 1), (part 2), (part 3) Claiming that privacy is about transactions and that being private is the recess of information is not immediately clear. Yet, the common logic that something is private so long as it is not published means that what we value and retain [...] Recent controversy over Warhammer Online, the MMO based on the Warhammer franchise, saw the one of the founders and CEO, Mark Jacobs, ejected from the business. He and others sold the operating company (Mythic Entertainment) to Electronic Arts for $70 odd million I believe in 2006. Scott “Lum the Mad” Jennings has [...] Previous: Introduction, Right to Privacy (part 1), (part 2), (part 3) Outside of the important work to legally refine privacy and our freedoms for information, it is important to improve the sense of what privacy is in itself. If we have a good working notion of what is private and [...] The other day French radical thought came to Barnes & Noble. Scores of students at Union Square in NY, apparently replete with all the trappings of Continental thought, held an ersatz flash mob to celebrate the translation of an anarchist book. It’s “The Coming Insurrection” or “L’insurrection Qui Vient”. In tandem with his latest book there have been some articles circulating about John LeCarre. This time they’re a little more retrospective and focusing on his history. This should suit us well, as we all wonder anxiously what awaits us in the Googleverse of CCTV and indexed text. We’ll, I guess I’ll start this. Let’s see if I can make it a tradition. Previous: Introduction, Right to Privacy (part 1), (part 2) It seems there are two kinds of particular private details that we value: Information on our movements and information on our states of being. Since the end game is a legal definition, there doesn’t need to be a lot of nuance as to [...] Paul Constant in this week’s The Stranger has a wonderful summary of the recent BookExpo America (BEA) he attended. It goes a little like this: This year’s BEA felt less like a convention and more like a funeral: Last fall’s recession triggered perhaps the most dismal year in the history of publishing in America. [...] Last week I had an interesting conversation with a Director at work. It ended something like this (with not that much abbreviation): Him: What is the most important thing to an Author? |
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