Thursday's Flurry of Words

Not Messy Enough To Be Our Home

We’ve spent time on the endless debate between print and digital reading. You know our stance. For the most part, we’d rather flip pages than click them. Then we moved. And it took four days. Three were spent on books. 90% of which went straight to the attic. 85% of those will never come out of their boxes. We have trouble throwing things away, and not one of our four copies of Billy Budd will ever leave its box. The attic is a battlefield for the music fight as well. The iPod contains all of our music, but the CDs, tapes and records remain. Like books, we can’t bear to throw them away. Pitchfork offers track reviews as well as album ones. We prefer listening to an entire album. Kid A may have been one of the last. The technological innovation of our media brings White Noise to mind, but Percival Everett is not Don DeLillo, nor is he Ralph Ellison. We wonder which is easier to steal, a physical book or a digital one. Now that the future is here, depression is rising. Need someone who understands? Louise Glück! And, In Case You missed It, here’s Thurston Moore talking about his book, No Wave. Watch for paper cuts. – Andrew Geer

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