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What I’ve Been Reading
July 25, 2011 in gewgaws
Information sharing comes up, in the course of my job, as a source of contention. My peers in the industry see the importance of being part of an information sharing network, but at a certain point, it becomes a question of how much you can consume while still doing your job.
I’m hopeless at this. I consume and consume with a bottomless thirst. Fortunately, my particular role in publishing rewards knowing “what’s up,” or this’d be a serious issue. In my personal life, I sometimes despair that I’m so much more of a consumer than a producer. In my more glib moods, I reassure myself that the world needs more people to consume what the rest of the world is intent on producing, talent or no.
Whether or not I’m doomed, I do come across a fair bit of interesting reading. Allow me to share the highlights of what I’ve consumed in the past 48 hours:
- The House Next Door’s enthusiastic and careful reviews of every single Harry Potter movie
- moment’s moving essay about the Roma
- Geoff Dyer’s first column in The New York Times Book Review, which is just as brilliantly flabbergasting as I’d hoped
- The Hairpin’s gleeful recounting of Elizabeth Taylor’s affair with Eddie Fisher
And that, folks, is what it’s like to live inside my head right now.
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