David Pogue writes about a little-known Google service that provides ad-free info via your cellphone.
Send a text message to 46645 (that’s “Google”; leave off the last E for efficiency). In the body of the message, type what you’re looking for, like “Roger McBride 10025” or “chiropractor dallas tx.” Seconds later, you get a return message […]
We’re used to seeing books on, say, computer programming given away free online, as contributions to the Open Source movement, or as marketing to enhance the author’s stature (or Google rank) just before the publication of his next non-free book.
You don’t see many novelists giving away free electronic access to their works. Cory Doctorow is […]
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
–Bob Wells
Two great South Park articles spotted by John Albrecht and Arts & Letters Daily.
South Park takes particular delight in skewering the Hollywood stars who exploit their celebrity to conduct liberal or leftwing campaigns against the workings of the free market (Barbra Streisand, Rob Reiner, […]
Fiction
The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers (Winner!)
Only Revolutions: A Novel, by Mark Z. Danielewski
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, by Ken Kalfus
Eat The Document: A Novel, by Dana Spiotta
The Zero, by Jess Walter
Nonfiction
The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan (Winner!)
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68, by Taylor Branch
Imperial Life in the Emerald […]
I’ll get these up on the Readers’ Page, together with the National Book Award finalists and winners at the earliest opportunity.
The 10 Best Books of 2006 - New York Times
100 Notable Books of the Year - New York Times
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