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Who knew?
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue —
...The internet is killing storytelling. ...
The decline of narrative ?
the Literary Saloon —
In The Times Ben Macintyre worries that The internet is killing storytelling, as: ...
Oh noes, teh intarwebs is killing (fill in the blank) — today’s edition
lying for a living —
... Storytelling is being killed by the Internet, or so claims Ben Macintyre in today’s Times of London.
Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of reading, and the nature of literacy itself, is changing.
The information we consume online comes ever faster, punchier and more fleetingly. Our attention rests only briefly on the internet page before moving incontinently on to the next electronic canapé. ...
Thursday Morning LitLinks
Author Scoop —
Tom Shone examines what happens when novelists sober up. (More Intelligent Life)
Is the internet killing storytelling? (Times Online)
Little Britain star David Williams talks about the influence of Roald Dahl on his own work (which is now shortlisted for the Dahl prize). (The Independent)
Alison Flood looks back at the children’s books we loved—and the ones maybe we shouldn’t have. (Guardian Books Blog)
Will eBooks have a happy holiday season? (Washington Post)
Abigail ...
WSJ on 'Ghetto Lit'
the Literary Saloon —
... - The decline of narrative ? In The Times Ben Macintyre worries that The internet is killing storytelling , as: The internet is there for snacking, grazing and tasting, not for the full, six-course feast that is nourishing narrative. The consequence is an anorexic form of culture. He concludes: Narrative is not dead, merely obscured by a blizzard of byte-sized information. A story, God knows, is still the most powerful way to understand. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word, in the great narrative that is the Bible, was not written as twitter. (Posted by: ...
Transnational Armenian literature ?
the Literary Saloon —
... - The decline of narrative ? In The Times Ben Macintyre worries that The internet is killing storytelling , as: The internet is there for snacking, grazing and tasting, not for the full, six-course feast that is nourishing narrative. The consequence is an anorexic form of culture. He concludes: Narrative is not dead, merely obscured by a blizzard of byte-sized information. A story, God knows, is still the most powerful way to understand. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word, in the great narrative that is the Bible, was not written as twitter. (Posted by: ...
The internet is killing storytelling
Backstory —
... Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of reading, and the nature of literacy itself, is changing.
via www.timesonline.co.uk
I'm not sure of this. What do you think? Is the net killing narrative? ...
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The Rumpus.net —
... “Fiction is dead.” (via)
Roommate: “Oh, everything’ll be fine. Dude, look! They just removed that lady’s skull cap with a plunger.” (via)
W: “No really. it’s not just fiction. Publishing is on its last legs. We’ve gone ‘one better than book burning.‘”
R: ”Hey, have you ever looked in Grissom’s eyes? I mean really looked?”
W: “I mean, reading old interviews from the Paris Review makes me feel a little better, ...
Week in Review
Marks in the Margin —
... And over at the Times of London Ben Macintyre looks closely at how the Internet might be affecting storytelling: “Narrative is not dead, merely obscured by a blizzard of byte-sized information. A story, God knows, is still the most powerful way to understand.” ...
OMNIVORE: Tiny bytes of information
bookforum.com —
... ). The internet is killing storytelling: Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over — they are disappearing in an online blizzard of tiny bytes of information. From The New Yorker , in an unstable Pakistan, can ...
