Collaborative Writing Tools The Book Lady's Blog Better Book Titles Introducing discussions in Google Docs - Docs Blog Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise blog. Editor's note: Hangouts On Air are live video chats, interviews, or performances that are broadcast to Google+. We’ll host these broadcasts from time to time on the Google Enterprise Google+ page to give you the inside scoop on our business and products. Last week, we hosted our first Hangout On Air from the Google Enterprise Google+ page with Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management, Jeff Harris, Google Docs Product Manager, Teresa Wu, Google Docs Community Manager, and Eric Brunnett, Director of IT at Trump Hotel Collection. During the conversation, Jonathan Rochelle told us the story of how Google Docs, Google Drive and cloud collaboration came to be. What was once an experiment to bring desktop software to the web is now a collaboration and productivity platform used by millions of people in their personal lives and at businesses, universities, non-profits and government agencies around the world.
'Use and Abuse of Literature,' by Marjorie Garber The Use and Abuse of Literature By Marjorie Garber (Pantheon; 320 pages; $28.95) Why read? Not so, argues Marjorie Garber, in "The Use and Abuse of Literature," an immensely readable yet vastly erudite reflection on the history of literary writing, literary criticism and the social value of both. This is a book of questions rather than answers. The teaching and study of literature, too, is full of questions. Garber responds like a true college professor (as one myself, I applaud her frankness): "The absence of answers or determinate meanings" is exactly the set of "qualities that make a passage or a work literary." This is not relativism. We read books often to learn how others do these things - and often to learn how others failed to do them. When we read stories of other people reading, invariably they are stories about characters falling in love, or lust, over a book. People have been reading Chaucer for 600 years.
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