Stephen Elliott kicked his “addiction to continual bursts of small information” by spending a month offline. In the current Poets & Writers, he’s got some suggestions for those of us who pass whole days cruising the so-called information superhighway in search of our next fix. Divide your day into online and offline. Studies have consistently shown that people with more . . .
The oldest surviving texts of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths are on display side by side at the British Library. (Via.)
A teacher who nearly got fired after her students published a school newspaper editorial “advocating tolerance of gays” will have to teach a different subject at another school. (Via.)
After talks with his editor, Michael Chabon spent eight months rewriting his latest novel, and shudders now at the thought of publishing the old draft.
Thanks to everyone who came out to the When I Was a Loser party last night, and especially to those who shushed the throng of investment bankers until they were shamed into relocating their networking/backrub party outside the reading zone. Kelly Braffet and Owen King dug out plaid shirts, concert tees, and baggy pants from high school, while I wore . . .