More on Kindle

Farhad Manjoo gets around to reviewing Kindle over at The Machinist. More useful is the commentary in the letters section where people discuss the virtues of the Sony Reader (you can download from Project Gutenberg!) and the price of books anyway. There's also a random posting from someone claiming to be a librarian pointing out all the free books you can get at your local library. Yes, dear, but you have to give them back at some point. And not write in them!

Also, Farhad? Buying 40 books over a five year period does not constitute being a book fanatic. That's about eight books a year--or basically, a good stop at B&N before summer vacation. Really.

"Now is the Golden Age of Creative Nonfiction"

Over at SFGate. Via Bookslut.

The article is "Langewiesche Unveiled":

"I realized early on that there were no limitations on nonfiction as an art form," he said. "And partly because the readers are sophisticated. They're not expecting this to be newspaper writing, necessarily. They're smarter than I am. They're hipper than I am. And if I can build the ride, they can go for it."

Creative nonfiction was one of my favorite subjects in the writing seminars I took at UGA. I think it's rather an interesting case, at once informative and entertaining, which are things that an astonishing amount of nonfiction doesn't do well.

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In cheerier news, I may get a job interview in early January. Fingers crossed!