{"id":599,"date":"2004-07-11T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/07\/11\/books-blogs-etc\/"},"modified":"2004-07-11T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2004-07-11T14:42:33","slug":"books-blogs-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/07\/11\/books-blogs-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, blogs, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1407'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a recent report by the National Endowment for the Arts, <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/2004\/07\/2004070901n.htm\">Literary Reading Is Declining Faster Than Before<\/a>.  The report puts the emphasis on <i>literary<\/i>, which would seem to exclude the non-fiction reading material I prefer.  <\/p>\n<p>What category does Sebald&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jump-cut.de\/dieringedessaturn.html\">Die Ringe des Saturn<\/a> fall into?  Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reversephonedirectory.com\/products\/index.html?item_id=0375756566&amp;search_type=AsinSearch&amp;locale=us\">Austerlitz<\/a>?  Definitely fiction, literary writing, I would think.  <\/p>\n<p>But what about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reversephonedirectory.com\/products\/index.html?item_id=3446196617&amp;search_type=AsinSearch&amp;locale=us\">Luftkrieg und Literatur<\/a>?  (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reversephonedirectory.com\/products\/index.html?item_id=0375504842&amp;search_type=AsinSearch&amp;locale=us\">this page<\/a> for a review of the English translation.)  Is it literary or history or both?<\/p>\n<p>How do you classify imagination, and who can say that history can be written by those without it?<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ve been reading recently: <i>Saturn<\/i> is on the &#8220;to read&#8221; list, and the other two I read ages ago.  It&#8217;s just that I often have to reach that far for fiction, I guess.  For a brilliant non-fiction read, try Margaret Wertheim&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwnorton.com\/catalog\/spring00\/32053.htm\">The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According 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&#8217;s Die Ringe des Saturn fall into? Or Austerlitz? Definitely fiction, literary writing, I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}