Reminder: Free reading: John Freeman: The Tyranny Of Email at City ... @ Wed Oct 28 7pm – 8pm (Queer Things)

more details » Free reading: John Freeman: The Tyranny Of Email at City Lights books John Freeman at City Lights Bookstore, Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 7:00 P.M. discussing The Tyranny Of Email published by Simon & Schuster. The award winning former president of the National Book Critics Circle traces a short history of our need for correnspondence and examines the astonishing growth of email--and how it is changing our lives, not always for the better. Drawing on extensively on the research of linguistics, behavioral sciences, cultural critics, and philosophers, Freeman takes a fascinating look at the unrelenting nature of corenspondence through the ages, and explores how that nature has manifested itself in email. As the toll of email mounts, reducing our time for leisure and contemplation, and separating us from each other in an unending and lonely battle with the overfull inbox. Freeman enters a plea for communication that is more selective and nuanced, and, above all, more sociable. John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who's written for a variety of publications including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, People, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson page-turner award, and was recently named American editor of Granta. He lives in New York City. When Wed Oct 28 7pm – 8pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • Larry Bob Roberts - creator

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