I have been writing a new piece about using computational modeling to study the legacy of Augustinian conversion in the modern novel. The project began when I tried to devise ways of detecting greater or lesser degrees of narrative binaryness across a broad range of texts, including novels and autobiographies. …
Now that Nicholas Carr has declared the ebook revolution over, it’s time to get back to thinking about the interactions between print and digital media and how they mutually influence one another. A few years back I wrote a piece about digital companions that accompanied a website I created to …
I’m reading Susan Dackerman’s Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe right now, one of the more beautiful illustrated …
In a recent article in Slate magazine, I argued that the kind of reading we do with books is significantly different from …
A really interesting new report released by wikipedia on usage statistics of its pages (over 29 million in English). And what do …
Three major publishers have joined together to create a new reading recommendation engine called “Bookish.” The site allows you to find books …
As part of my new work with computational reading, I’ve begun creating a library of network tables for different authors’ corpuses. I’m …
A fantastic piece in The New Yorker on a new publishing initiative called Inkling to make books more web-friendly by dividing them …
A new journalistic recipe is afoot: find once ubiquitous technology that is on the wane and write about its quirky history. The latest …
A new story at the Guardian on how McDonald’s is planning on distributing 15 million children’s books over the next few years …
