As Frédéric Filloux and others have pointed out, The New York Times pricing seems designed not to get people to subscribe digitally, but rather to discourage existing subscribers from cancelling their print subscriptions. I think the chart above validates that view: they apparently have no interest in competing for digital-only dollars.
via Digital Subscription Prices Visualized aka The New York Times Is Delusional.
Fiction: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (at The Millions, Egan’s Year in Reading, excerpt)
Nonfiction: Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (excerpt)
Autobiography: Darin Strauss, Half a Life (excerpt)
Criticism: Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
Biography: Sarah Bakewell, How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (at The Millions, excerpt)
Poetry: C. D. Wright, One with Others
via The Millions : 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced.
Twitter has 175 million users and counting and only select, mostly high-profile people are granted “verified†status. How are verified users vetted? Twitter refused to explain the process, saying via e-mail, “we continue to very selectively verify accounts most at risk for impersonation on a one-off and highly irregular basis.â€
How Does Twitter Verify Celebrity Accounts? – Speakeasy – WSJ.
This is a time to re-examine and celebrate the wide rage of women’s contributions and achievements that are too often overlooked in telling US history. Come join us in the Todd Library to check out just a “sampling” of their story.
