FiveBooks Newsletter 121
Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The Browser.
FiveBooks weekly newsletter: Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The Browser.
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Gary Taubes on Dieting
Friday October 19
Struggling to hold yourself to a calorie-counting regimen? Ignore the conventional advice on losing weight, says the science writer – what constitutes a healthy diet needs to be drastically re-evaluated Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gary-taubes-on-dieting)
Jessica Pressman on Electronic Literature
Thursday October 18
The literature and reading scholar tells us about the profound effect that the rise of electronic literature has had on authors, the publishing industry and the nature of the book. Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jessica-pressman-on-electronic-literature)
PJ O’Rourke on Political Satire
Wednesday October 17
PJ O’Rourke talks Swift, Huxley, Orwell and Waugh and says we now live in the world of 1984 but, instead of being a horror show, a television that looks back at you is just a pain in the ass Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/p-j-o’rourke-on-political-satire)
Philip Marsden on The Sea
Tuesday October 16
The travel writer casts his net over books about the sea and comes up with a haul including Moby Dick and a naval history Of Britain Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-marsden-on-sea)
Andy Lawrence on Astronomy, Physics and People
Monday October 15
The astronomy professor says the process of scientific discovery can be slow and messy – but that reading about some of the extraordinary personalities involved brings the history alive Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-lawrence-on-astronomy-physics-and-people)
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Best of the Moment
Boss Rail
Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 15 October 2012
How a high-speed rail disaster exposed China's corruption. "An engineer who worked on the railway’s construction told me, 'There is an expression in Chinese: when you take too great a leap, you can tear your balls'" More like this (http://thebrowser.com/best)
Featured Topic
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The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Once a hero, but now the game is up. Here's how the aggressively preserved reputation of Lance Armstrong finally crumbled Read on (http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong)
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Tim Parks says (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction) : “It’s about a desire to possess the whole world in your house and garden and to control it all without having to be exposed to the outside world” FiveBooks Archive (http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks)
Video of the Week
Stratos Jump: Lego Edition
(http://thebrowser.com/videos/stratos-jump-lego-edition)
Felix Baumgartner tribute More videos (http://thebrowser.com/videos)
Quote of the Week
Demian Farnworth, on failure (http://freelanceswitch.com/start/why-freelancers-fail)
"Failure can be a great teacher—especially if you learn from someone else’s failure"
More quotes (http://thebrowser.com/quotations)
Reader Recommendations
@joespring Checking in on a oceanic Eden, where hell lies just below the surface. "Paradise with An Asterisk" #longform t.co/TcchSI3R #browsings (https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings) More like this (http://thebrowser.com/browsings)