THE FEED: JULY 30TH

What we're reading:

Death of the phone call
(Wired): Is the intrusive phone call being rendered obsolete?

How to classify Mark Twain
(Granta): Novelist, humorist, travel writer, essayist or memoirist? Malcolm Jones works it out

Re-writing the greats
(New Yorker): "I Write Like", the "Auto Summarize" project and other literary toys

Today's quote:

"I wondered if a play exploring the issue of gays serving in the military might be viewed as “preaching to the choir"... I soon discovered that my worries about preaching to the choir were unfounded because, where gays in the military are concerned, there has never been a choir to preach to."

~ Mark Wolf, "Theater Talkback: Preaching to the Choir on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'?" (New York Times)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com