Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. ( lithub.com )
“The Small Press World is About to Fall Apart.” On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution ( lithub.com )
Please see also: https://beehaw.org/post/12924678
The Stories We Tell Our Sons About Becoming Men ( lithub.com )
Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books ( lithub.com )
I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....