Books, blogs, etc.
July 11, 2004 at 10:42 am | In yulelogStories | 4 CommentsAccording to a recent report by the National Endowment for the Arts, Literary Reading Is Declining Faster Than Before. The report puts the emphasis on literary, which would seem to exclude the non-fiction reading material I prefer.
What category does Sebald’s Die Ringe des Saturn fall into? Or Austerlitz? Definitely fiction, literary writing, I would think.
But what about Luftkrieg und Literatur? (See this page for a review of the English translation.) Is it literary or history or both?
How do you classify imagination, and who can say that history can be written by those without it?
At any rate, if you stop blogging and reading blogs and stay away from your computer for a while, you will read more books. Those books by Sebald were not the books I’ve been reading recently: Saturn is on the “to read” list, and the other two I read ages ago. It’s just that I often have to reach that far for fiction, I guess. For a brilliant non-fiction read, try Margaret Wertheim’s The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace.
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