FiveBooks Newsletter 47
Dear readers,
Today on FiveBooks, best-selling author Joshua Foer talks about [1]memory,
and how “we’ve forgotten how to remember.” He follows a week of great
interviews, from Cheapflights.com co-founder David Soskin on [2]the Internet
to sports columnist Joe Posnanski on [3]baseball.
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joshua-foer-on-memory
2. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-soskin-on-internet
3. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joe-posnanski-on-baseball
Look out this week for interviews with Tim Harford on “unexpected
economics”, Lawrence Kaplan on US intervention, and five must-read books to
understand what’s happening in Syria.
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[4]Joshua Foer on Memory
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joshua-foer-on-memory
Monday May 16th
The best-selling author and 2006 US Memory Champion picks five unforgettable
books about the art of remembering [5]Continue reading…
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joshua-foer-on-memory
[6]Joe Posnanski on Baseball
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joe-posnanski-on-baseball
Saturday May 14th
The Sports Illustrated columnist says the best sports books tell human
stories – and tells us why nostalgia is intrinsic to baseball [7]Continue
reading…
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joe-posnanski-on-baseball
[8]Richard Tofel on the Changing Business of Journalism
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-tofel-on-changing-business-journalism
Friday May 13th
General manager of the non-profit newsroom ProPublica and former assistant
publisher of the Wall Street Journal tells us his predictions for the future
of news [9]Continue reading…
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-tofel-on-changing-business-journalism
[10]Edward L Glaeser on Urban Economics
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-l-glaeser-on-urban-economics
Thursday May 12th
The Harvard economist chooses books on the economics of cities, from
Chicago’s life story to how urban transport shaped New York [11]Continue
reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-l-glaeser-on-urban-economics
[12]Danny Dorling on Modern Britain
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/danny-dorling-on-modern-britain
Wednesday May 11th
From the North-South divide to middle-class insecurity and the correlation
of petrol use and obesity, five books on what makes Britain British
[13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/danny-dorling-on-modern-britain
[14]David Soskin on the Internet
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-soskin-on-internet
Tuesday May 10th
The co-founder and former chief executive of the website Cheapflights tells
us what (not) to do to succeed online, and how to learn from Google and
Facebook [15]Continue reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-soskin-on-internet
[16]Here Be Monsters
Links:
16. http://b.rw/l72few
Michael Finkel | GQ | 9 May 2011
Epic tale of three boys found in a dinghy in the middle of the Pacific.
"They had no food, no water, no clothing, no fishing gear, no life vests,
and no first-aid kit. They were close to death. They had been missing for 51
days"
Featured Topic
[17]Poetry
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/topics/poetry
From poets on poetry and lives of the great poets, to fact-checking verse
and Google Voice as poetry ... something for the bard in us all
Book of the Week
[18]Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay
Shirky
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/here-comes-everybody-power-organizing-without-organizations-by-clay-shirky
[19]Richard Tofel says: “This is the smartest thing that I have read, of
book length, about social media and what it will mean for journalism”
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-tofel-on-changing-business-journalism
Video of the Week
[20]A Love Story In Milk
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/love-story-milk
If you don't like it, you can always just skim it
Quote of the Week
[21]Rodney Dangerfield, on getting older
Links:
21. http://www.gourmandizer.com/ezine/albini
"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact,
I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table"
Reader Recommendations
@TheAmScho: What 1930s pop culture can tell us about our own economic
hardships. http://tinyurl.com/3uwaqot #browsings