BOOKISHNESS:
THE NEW FATE OF READING
IN THE DIGITAL AGE

At the current moment of ever-accelerating technological change, it's particularly important to pause and think about the challenges generated by new media and how they might or might not change the ways we read in the decades to come. What new literacies are generated in the digital era? What happens to the cultural practices and norms associated with and generated by the traditional book? And most importantly, how are institutions—libraries, bookstores, newspapers and magazines, presses, universities, the general reading public—responding to this new situation? How ought they to respond?

Five views of bookishness in our moment:

Jessica Pressman, "The Aesthetic of Bookishness in the Twenty-first Century"

Leah Price "Reading as If for Life"

Paul N. Courant, "New Institutions for the Digital Age"

Phil Pochoda, "UP 2.0"

Alan Liu, "The End of the End of the Book: Dead Books, Lively Margins, and Social Computing"



Also:

Essays by Benjamin Busch, Michael Wood, Stephen Burt

Conversation between Donald Yates and Ilan Stavans

Review of Philip Roth's Humiliation by Ross Posnock

Fiction and Poetry

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