Whatever the limitations of the experience as a whole, here’s an advantage to reading a book on the iPhone: If you drop it, you don’t lose your place. I had this reconfirmed this morning, when, as I dashed to the train, my phone slipped from my hands and plummeted to the subway tracks. There it lay, illuminated for a minute . . .
FieldReport is offering $250k for the true-life essay rated highest by the site’s users. Trouble is, writers think it’s a scam. (Thanks, Chris.)
Congratulations to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Alex Ross, personal favorites and 2008 MacArthur award fellows.
In a charming profile, Bryan Appleyard gets Marilynne Robinson talking about her writing — and her life.
If the Wall Street bailout was a money-transfer scam e-mail, it might look a little like this. (Thanks, Max.)