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Monday, January 18, 2010
things to come
Friends, I've been traveling the past few days — visiting family in Alabama, driving around in my daddy's old pickup, eating at Chick-fil-a and Jim 'n' Nick's — yeah, they've gotten kinda fancy and above their raisin', what with slick websites and Twitter feeds and all, but they still serve darn good smoked meat — and I have now returned to a big pile of work. And then at the end of the week I'll be headed to Texas for a few days to give a talk at Baylor on "The End of the Book and the Future of Reading."
Ergo, posting will be light for a while — but take heart, interesting links will continue to appear on my tumblelog, and all those posts are accessible via the Twitter feed you will see to the right of this page. And I may post a sample passage or two from the upcoming lecture.
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University and the author, most recently, of How to Think and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. His homepage is here.

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How to Read Well in an Age of Distraction
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Please tell me the Boo will survive.
Um, right . . . What would life be without the Boo?
Post the samples, assuming you cannot meet at Muldoon's for an hour on Tues. evening and give me the lecture in person.
dw