The Writer Who Couldn’t Read : NPR: This fascinating story from NPR (National Public Radio) tells the story of Howard Engel, a Canadian mystery novelist who woke up one morning and discovered that he could no longer read. His brain damaged by a stroke, Engel couldn’t make sense of written words, which looked to him […]
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José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Writer, Dies at 87 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation with a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, died on Friday at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He was
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Killer Thrillers: Your Nominations, Please! : NPR: NPR (National Public Radio) seeks your help in compiling a list of thrillers for summer reading. Drop by this site, leave your nominations in the comments section, and see what books others have recommended.
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This list includes some of the books mentioned in a previous post as well as others about the psychology of reading. It is intended as a starting point rather than a definitive bibliography on the subject. Dehaene, Stanislas. Reading in the Brain: the Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. New York: Viking, 2009. Print.
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Update May 2025 The original link to Raymond Tallis’s article “The Neuroscience Delusion” no longer works; however, I found a PDF version available online and have updated the link. Also, the link to John Horgan’s Scientific American post “Can Brain Scans Help Us Understand Homer?” no longer works. After an extensive search, I was able
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At BookExpo America, Anxiety Amid the Chatter – NYTimes.com: As the book industry gathered for its annual convention in New York this week, it had plenty to be nervous about: the threat of piracy, the decline of brick-and-mortar stores and the perhaps-too-low price of e-books.
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Business & Technology | Amazon.com’s Kindle fails first college test | Seattle Times Newspaper: If Amazon hoped for honest feedback when it started testing the Kindle DX on college campuses last fall, it certainly got its wish; students pulled no punches telling the Seattle Internet giant what they thought of its $489 e-reader. But if
Borders Books announces e-reader with apps for iPhone, OS X and the iPad: Announcement (once again from The Unofficial Apple Weblog) of yet another dedicated ereader device, this one to be sold by Borders.
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A tale of two mediums: Despite the iPad, traditional books aren’t going anywhere.: Over on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, writer–and reader–Michael Grothaus compares reading a novel both in its traditional, printed format with reading it on the iPad. For his experiment he read alternating chapters of the same novel in paperback and in the iPad’s
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Is it creepy that Amazon is tracking most-highlighted Kindle passages? – CSMonitor.com: In a blog for the Christian Science Monitor Rebekah Denn asks, “Do you think Amazon is invading privacy by tracking which passages readers most often highlight on their Kindles?” What she says about the most-quoted books may surprise you, but don’t forget that
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