Interview starts at 14:49 and ends at 42:07

You worry about the next generation of readers. Is literature going to survive? It seems to be surviving at the moment, but the iPhone has been around since 2007, and the way that digital culture has taken over in those nine years is staggering. Its’s much more comprehensive and thoroughgoing than anyone expected.

The music of bluegrass legend Peter Rowan

“Apple Thinks It Can Win This Case at the Supreme Court” by Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune - November 3, 2015

Apple’s Supreme Court Petition for a Writ of Certiorari (PDF) - October 28, 2015 

“Apple’s $450 million e-books settlement gets final approval” by James Niccolai at PC World - November 22, 2016

“Scripps National Spelling Bee Announces Kindle as New Presenting Sponsor” - press release February 23, 2016

World’s Most Admired Companies in 2016 - Fortune

 

Dave Slusher podcast episode of Evil Genius Chronicles in which he loses his Kindle and shuts it down via Amazon (starts at 31:50)

Amazon Fire TV Device Software Updates

Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives. by David Denby

Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation by David Denby

“Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore?” by David Denby at The New Yorker - February 23, 2016 

“A Champion of the Humanities: David Denby” by Wendy Smith at Publishers Weekly - January 29, 2016

David Denby on NPR’s “On Point” with Tom Ashbrook - February 11, 2016

Great Books by David Denby

Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Books (available free with Kindle Unlimited)

Books mentioned by Sherry Turkle: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age and Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Spark Notes and CliffsNotes

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill

Emma by Jane Austin

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

David Denby’s review of “Wild” in The New Yorker - December 8, 2014

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Washington Square by Henry James

"The Heiress" (DVD) at Amazon.com

“The Maltese Falcon” (Amazon video)

“The Plot Against America: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric” by David Denby at The New Yorker - December 15, 2016

“Stop Humiliating Teachers” by David Denby at The New Yorker - February 11, 2016

 

Winter Men, available for pre-order with delivery March 1, 2016. English Translator: K. E. Semmel

CHI-RAQ, directed by Spike Lee, free to Prime members on Amazon Instant Video

David Axelrod’s podcast interview with Spike Lee on The Axe Files - November 30, 2015

A suggestion for an improvement to Kindle for Mac

 

K. E. Semmel, English translator of Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold