Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.09.14

Making the old new (2)
Why don’t more performers add ornaments to old music the way its original interpreters did?
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-06-09

The Ojai Music Festival and Uri Caine
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-06-09

How To Curate A Folk Art Show Where There’s Little Tradition For It
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-06-09

Opera and arts education
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-06-09

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New Book Genre: The Extreme Reading Memoir

“The merchandising of reading [today] has a curiously undifferentiated flavor, as if what you read mattered less than that you read. In this climate of embattled bibliophilia, a new subgenre of books about books has emerged, a mix of literary criticism, autobiography, self-help, and immersion journalism: authors undertake reading stunts to prove that reading – anything – still matters.”