Word: readerly
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...show and had just stuck with his stress-free column job, King would have been appreciated more for his print work. He'd also probably still be on wife No. 1 and heart No. 1. Instead, I am left here to mourn King not only as a reader--how am I going to find out if Steve Martini's next novel is a helluva read?--but as a disciple...
...three-year-old son. It is here that the novel exudes the warmth and heart that is lacking at times in his archly satirical view of New York and the world, and the conclusion is enough to bring a lump to the throat of even the most jaded reader...
...manages to rescue Solanka from his fury. Yet there is something unsatisfying in her portrayal. She is characterized in terms of her beauty, which Rushdie is forced to describe in terms of its (hazardous) effects on her surroundings: arrested traffic, collisions with lamp posts and occasional tears. But the reader is given little reason to sympathize with Solanka’s love for Neela besides her beauty. We are given only the briefest insight into her background, and her passion for her native country’s freedom remains a background consideration until the novel’s final pages...
Although Cobain has typically been portrayed by the media as a deeply committed musician who became swept up and ultimately overwhelmed by the accidental mass appeal of his art, the newest biography of the Nirvana frontman attempts to convince the reader otherwise. Heavier than Heaven (Hyperion, 381 pp., $24.95), by former Seattle music journalist Charles Cross, details the short and tumultuous life of a man who had always dreamed of being a Rock Star, drawing on evidence from over four years of research, 400 interviews and love letters and entries from Cobain’s private journals...
...Editors like to think that the arrangement of stories on the front page or the order of stories on the evening news offer readers or viewers a little bit of serendipity. That is, a reader can start off reading a story about George Bush and get interested in the story one column over on new kinds of cell phones. And that does happen. But this is a contrived serendipity engineered by someone's editorial judgment. Surfing the web, for better or for worse, offers genuine serendipity of a kind that is not predictable or arranged. And that's what really...