THE FEED: JAN 14TH

What we're reading:

Before Britannica, before Wikipedia
(Washington Post): A review of "Too Much to Know", Ann M. Blair's latest book on early modes of "information management"

When less is less, less is more
(Slate): How the recession has changed architecture for the better

"Coming Through the Rye"?
(BBC News): Swedish author Fredrik Colting settled with Salinger's estate; his sequel to "Catcher in the Rye" will not be published in the America or Canada

Today's quote:

"Without surrendering sugar, dessert had surrendered all its familiar forms—the cake, the soufflé, the pudding—as the avant-garde novel had surrendered narrative, character, and moral. Losing our faith in art is, in a secular culture, what losing our faith in God was to a religious one; God only knows what losing our faith in desserts must be."

~ Adam Gopnik, "The science and imagination behind modern dessert" (New Yorker)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com