Entries from August 2009

Aug. 14, 2009

Lawrence Lessig on the Google book search settlement

Will Google Books, the audacious attempt to digitize every book ever written, have the perverse effect of making books — and ideas — less available, less ubiquitous, less free? Will copyright laws require that most of the books written in the last century be excluded from the new digital online library? Is this progress? This [...]

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Aug. 10, 2009

Remembering Updike the Father

John Updike’s son writes a eulogy for his father

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Aug. 8, 2009

Crime novels and entertainments

Crime novels are easier to write than literary ones. So what?

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Aug. 2, 2009

Kate’s Mystery Books closes (for now)

Kate’s Mystery Books in Cambridge closed on Saturday. Kate Mattes held an event with an army of volunteers who helped pack the place up. I stopped by and chatted briefly with Kate, who told me she plans to spend the next year or so getting her enormous inventory properly cataloged online, as well as digitizing [...]

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Aug. 1, 2009

Makers vs. Managers

All writers are both makers and managers. The trick is to keep the two roles separate.

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