"Wallace doesn’t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students."

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” from NYT.

When Rodrigo Quian Quiroga visited Jorge Luis Borges's private library, he found annotated books that bear witness to the writer's fascination for memory and neuroscience. from Nature.

Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the history of culture, the ways we try to avoid thinking about death and why Google is dangerous for young people. from SPIEGEL.

an annotated list. from jacket copy, lat.

pseudo-autobiographical narrative with a theorization of contemporary literature in media-specific terms. by n. katherine hayles.

digital fiction from penguin.

directed by philippe molins. from ubuweb.