“Oates was nominated in fiction for “The Gravedigger’s Daughter,” along with Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” which was passed over for a National Book Award nomination last fall.”
Tag: 01.13.08
A Sixth Sense – Morality?
“Today, a new field is using illusions to unmask a sixth sense, the moral sense. Moral intuitions are being drawn out of people in the lab, on Web sites and in brain scanners, and are being explained with tools from game theory, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.”
Indie Bookstore Owner Objects To Doom And Gloom Stories
“If you want to know how independent booksellers really are doing, come ask us. Reacting to the closing of one bookshop by saying it is another death-knell of an industry simply isn’t fair or correct and can be counterproductive. Why not do a story about how some independents are doing fine because of their customers who want to support small businesses? Isn’t there a story in that?”
Report On Health Of Boston Arts Irks Some Artists
A recent Boston Foundation report on the stte of the arts in Boston “contended that while large institutions such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Museum of Fine Arts remain healthy, smaller groups are losing audience and struggling to balance their budgets. An organization ‘whose vision has either dissipated or lost its resonance with its audience or supporters’ should consider shutting down, the foundation wrote.”