Hey, this is kind of cool! The Book Haven, and Humble Moi, have made it to the pages of Le Monde. Il commence:
La lecture de la semaine, il s’agit d’un post du blog que Cynthia Haven, critique littéraire, tient sur le site de l’université de Stanford, en Californie. Le titre du post : “Les nouveaux médias sociaux ne sont peut-être pas si nouveaux que ça”.
“Si vous vous sentez submergés par les médias sociaux”, commence Cynthia Haven, “sachez que vous n’êtes pas les premiers dans l’Histoire. Une avalanche de nouvelles formes de communication s’est abattue aussi sur les Européens des 17e et 18e siècles.
Prefer English? It’s derived from our November 2nd post “Hot new social media maybe not so new: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, which describes parallels between our Information Revolution and that of an earlier era.
Read the French take on all this here. And don’t forget our mention in the New Yorker here.
Author: Cynthia Haven
Cynthia Haven has written for The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, World Literature Today, and other publications. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde, La Repubblica, The Kenyon Review, Quarterly Conversation, The Georgia Review, Civilization, and others. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven was published in London, 2005. Her Czestaw Mitosz: Conversations was published in 2006; Joseph Brodsky: Conversations in 2003; An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czestaw Mitosz was published in 2011 with Ohio University Press / Swallow Press. She is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford. Her biography René Girard, A Life will be published next year.
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Hey, this is kind of cool! The Book Haven, and Humble Moi, have made it to the pages of Le Monde. Il commence: