RSSHelp Me Become More Well-Read
September 3rd, 2008 | 6 Comments
I don’t make resolutions in January, but I do tend to make them for new school years. One of my resolutions for 2008-2009 is to read fiction again and to fill in some of the gaps (or rather, ginormous canyons) in my literary knowledge. And also to find new books that I really, really enjoy.
I just cracked open Atlas Shrugged, but I’m not quite sure what to read after that (other than The Fountainhead — Animal Farm? Slaughterhouse-Five? Anna Karenina?). So, dear readers, help me with my reading list!
In Support of Digital Book Readers
March 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Most of the talk about digital readers has been for the regular book market, but I think there’s an entirely different market that would embrace digital readers with open arms, but have slightly different needs than your average fiction consumer.
Students.
Book Review: The Genius Factory
August 23rd, 2006 | No Comments
Author: David Plotz
Publisher: Random House
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Every parent’s dream is to have a child that is healthy, bright, and good-looking. Robert Graham’s dream was to have a planet of children that were healthy, bright, and good-looking. What if, he wondered, I could, using the magic of masturbation and liquid nitrogen, mate the best men and women from all over the country, and thus produce a generation of perfect children?
The Genius Factory began as a series of articles on Slate.com, collectively known as “Seed”, and tells the tale of the Repository for Germinal Choice, more popularly known as the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. The bank was started by a man on a mission to improve the quality of human stock (thank god he was a benevolent sort) and, according to Plotz, revolutionized sperm banking as we know it.
