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Judging A Book By Its Kindle

October 01, 2019
by Caroline Miller
A Brief History of Time, best seller books, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Donna Tartt, Jorden Ellenberg, Kindle, Stephen Hawking, The Goldfinch, Thomas Piketty, William Falk
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When Stephen Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time  came out several years ago, someone hid money at the back of one copy to see if anyone  got to the end of this complex work on cosmology.  The book hit the best seller list and remained there for 4 years, but no on
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Too Tartt For Me

September 18, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Amazon's rankings, Caleb Crain, Counter Culture, Donna Tartt, literary canon, The Goldfinch
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Recently, I discovered that on Amazon’s book rankings, the works of John Keats and William Wordsworth are listed 796,426 and 2,337,250 respectively, only slightly higher than mine. (“Counter Culture,” by Caleb Crain, Harper’s, July 2015 pg.82.)  Naturally, I, a modest wr
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Cell Phone Novels

August 26, 2016
by Caroline Miller
Clive Thompson, Donna Tartt, Marshall McLuhan, Prena Gupta, SMS novels, Tale of the Text, Understanding the Media
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When Prerna Gupta decided to take a year off to write fiction with her husband, the couple experimented by crafting stories for cell phone apps.  Though the pieces were short, no more than a 5 minute read, only 15% of viewers finished them. That’s when the pair decided to experimen
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Nothing New Under The Sun

August 24, 2015
by Caroline Miller
Andy Warhol, Donna Tartt, Readymade novel, Saj Mathew, Samuel Beckett, Theatre of the Absurd", Villa-Matas, Waiting for Gadot, when doing the art is the art
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The trick to make something old seem new again is to describe it using different words. The world will be mesmerized by the novelty. The ploy worked for Andy Warhol’s soup cans and made him a fortune. To be honest, I don’t believe there’s been a new idea in literature since Thea
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A Strong Warning

July 30, 2014
by Caroline Miller
Donna Tartt, Evgenia Peretz, Henry James, It's Tartt - But Is It Art, Mark Twain, Norman Mailer, Stephen King, The Goldfinch
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judging literature
Winning the Pulitzer Prize won’t ensure a writer respect from a certain cadre of critics, those who owe their high perches to their employment rather than to any literary achievement.   For good or ill, these arbitrators of taste imagine they determine what passes for fine literat
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