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The Internet is making libraries obsolete. Libraries as a place people use to conduct research are going the way of the dodo. Nobody goes to the library anymore. That’s the assumption some people make, but a brief note in the Chronicle of Higher Education summarizes a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project […]
When I read in the Chicago Tribune that a new search engine called ChaCha was now available, my first thought was, “Does the world really need another search engine?” I’m still not sure of the answer that question, especially after reading in SearchTank about one user’s less than stellar experience. ChaCha offers the new feature […]
I’ve been known to drive friends, my wife, and even my parents crazy when visiting a different state or city because I insist on doing as much as possible that’s local. My father, at least, has a similar preference, and has even occasionally said that he won’t eat at any restaurant that has more than […]
Defining the absolute worst may be at least as difficult as defining the best, if not more so. After all, very few writers deliberately set out to be bad. Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton didn’t try to be a bad writer, but, even if you’ve never heard of him, or his novel Paul Clifford, you’re probably familiar […]
How we define what’s best in any particular area is extremely subjective, but some editors bravely rise to the task, sorting through and trying to make judgments about the year’s best. Here are some of this year’s selections, as well as some award winners for the year 2007.
In an interview on G4 television’s Attack Of The Show, scriptwriters Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary said they’d never heard that Beowulf is a kind of Hollywood joke until they’d started working on a script. Other filmmakers have tried to bring Beowulf to the big screen, one of the most recent efforts being director Sturla […]
The 2007 edition of the Yearbook of English Studies has devoted an entire volume to the subject of science fiction in literature. As guest editor David Seed says in the preface, “Over recent decades SF has moved from the margins of our culture to a position of centrality.” Part of this is because science fiction […]
Doris Lessing is this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s both good news for those of us who have read her work for a long time and also a surprise, coming forty-five years after what many consider her best work, The Golden Notebook.
A question that’s been asked often in recent years, even by some librarians, is, Who needs librarians? For that matter, who needs libraries now that we have search engines like Google? I made some points in an article I wrote several years ago titled Googling Libraries, about the way that all Internet search engines are […]
Roald Dahl was born September 13th, 1916. While he’s best known as the author of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (made into a film with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka And The Charlie Factory, then made again by Tim Burton into a film with Johnny Depp, this time under the book’s original title) he wrote […] |
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