Results tagged “criticism”

As we alerted you the other day, author Steven Johnson was in town this week for a flurry of book talks. We caught up with him at Vivace and talked with him a little about his new book, The Invention of Air, but also about the life of Steven Johnson, author. This is the second and final installment. Here's Part One of the interview.

As we alerted you the other day, author Steven Johnson was in town this week for a flurry of book talks; we caught up with him at Vivace--he didn't imbibe, he was already sufficiently caffeinated he said, and in fact we got 45 minutes of talk into our half-hour interview slot--and talked with him a little about his new book, The Invention of Air, but also about the life of Steven Johnson, author. Here's some of that--we'll post more later as we type it up.

Seattle mental health blogger Philip Dawdy got some blogosphere blowback for a short piece he wrote mentioning David Foster Wallace's suicide. Dawdy's contention is that psych meds are falsely touted as failsafe lifesavers, when he estimates they work only 30 to 50 percent of the time, and of course come with substantial side effects. In response to commenters who accused him of going too far, in his criticism and in pulling in the shade of DFW, Dawdy responded with a post that sums up the mission of his site, ending with: "Besides, compared to Keith Olberman, Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs I am a goddamned Zen Buddhist." [Arrested Development Narrator VO: "And that is how you close a post!"]