![]() John Warner tells you what to read based on the last five books you’ve read.Ģ. Twitter recommendations from the Biblioracle John Warner is the author of “Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities.” Once there, he secures lodging above a bookstore and gets busy exploring the innumerable oddball books and oddball people of the town while in the midst of writing his own book, which becomes the book you’re reading, “Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books.” A love letter to both the futility of thinking that your words will endure, and the awesome possibility that a book may be a bid for immortality.Įach bookstore unique. ![]() I agree with Chayka’s premise, which is why in honor of the failure of Amazon’s bookstores, and in the spirit of curation, I’m going to give you some of my favorite books about bookstores.įor a year, Paul Collins moved his family to Hay-on-Wye in rural Wales, a town with fewer than 2,000 residents, but with 40 bookstores. In “Filterworld,” Chayka argues for the embrace of “curation” over aggregation as a way to bring yourself into better contact with the media and experiences you’ll find most meaningful. We look for books that are about things we’re interested in, or that convey stories that grip our attention. We don’t look for books with a certain rating. ![]() For example, Amazon stores had sections dedicated to books that were rated “4.5 and above,” a metric that’s meaningless independent of other information about the books. In Kyle Chayka’s terrific new book, “Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture,” he uses the failure of Amazon’s bookstores as an illustration to show the limited meaning algorithmic aggregation (like ratings) can provide. Every single physical location closed back in 2022. Love it or hate it Diary of an Oxygen Thief is here and it will divide opinion, Read it for yourself and judge for yourself.Amazon has conquered a lot of aspects of our cultural and consumer world, but when it came to bricks-and-mortar bookstores, they biffed, big time. the cult tale of a misogynist's ruin ― Guardian A massively enjoyable, very quick read that's as hipster as a three pound bowl of Rice Krispies on Shoreditch High Street, but less of a rip-off ― The Pool The book becomes valuable, at least to me, because what the oxygen thief does par excellence is describe the myriad horrors of corporate culture ― Elle Thinks A brutal but a frank and honest account. ― Lorenzo DeRita, editor in chief, COLORS magazine Enthralling. One of the most interesting and controversial encounters I've made through a book. ― Richard Nash, author of What is the Business of Literature? First he steals the oxygen from you, then he spits it right back in your face. Scott Fitzgerald for the iPad generation. I loved it! ― Junot Diaz, author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao F. Kinky, artsy, and swoon-worthy ― New York Magazine The author does a great job. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Store order history or Prime Video Watch history) and cookies, please visit our Privacy notice and our Cookie notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookies and advertising choices. Click “Decline” to reject, or “Customise” to make more detailed advertising choices, or learn more. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. In any case, we use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie notice. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cookies store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Your choice applies to using first-party and third-party advertising cookies on this service. In addition, if you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie notice. If you decline, your choices will apply by 6 March 2024. We may also use personal information we receive from third parties (like demographic information). For example, we may use your Prime Video Watch history to personalize the ads we show you on our Stores or on Fire TV. If you agree, we may use your personal information from any of these Amazon services to personalize the ads we show you on other services.
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