April 2, 2006

Worth Knowing

Now reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, partly upon Stuart’s urging but also due to this article on literary science writing. A wonderful article by Jane Smiley on her own literary marathon. She says of it, “It’s worth knowing that serious thoughts are being thought, and also that serious fun is being made of fools everywhere. It’s also worth knowing, in dangerous times, that dangers have come and gone and we still have these books.” And good good news: the end of the age of ironing.