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As easy on the eyes as paper – On books and e-readers

By TF | Published: January 14, 2010
E-readers are the way of the reading future, seemingly whether we like it or not. But are digital books an attempt to fix a reading experience that isn’t broken? I once worked in an art museum where my primary role was to stop people from touching the works. Of course, it didn’t say it like that [...]
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Public Library 21.7

By TF | Published: July 21, 2009
David Marr on the Productivity Commision’s jumble of garble/book report. A Country Doctor, short story by Franz Kafka. The LA Times’ 61 essential postmodern reads. Ebooks deleted from Kindles in the night. World Digital Library.
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Public Library 13.6

By TF | Published: June 12, 2009
Jon Baskin on why death is not the end for David Foster Wallace. From Point Magazine. The Sound of Young America speaks to Brother Ali. A piece on why Ali is important to hip-hop will be coming to the igloo soon. The Sydney Morning Herald’s resident economic gangsta, Ross G, breaks down the psychology of pleasing the [...]
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Writing stories that have already been written: David Foster Wallace and Malcolm Knox

By TF | Published: June 11, 2009
In 1996, following the success of his article, ‘Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All’, a story he wrote on the Illinois State Fair, David Foster Wallace was commissioned by Harper’s magazine to go on a seven night cruise. As with the fair, the journalistic framework of the project was simply [...]
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