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A writer who should be engaging on several fronts, John Freeman makes this welcome first appearance here this evening. He almost made it to Seattle a few years ago when a group sought to present a dialogue on the need for book reviews and coverage in newspapers—a view he championed as head of the National Book Critics Circle—and a highly regarded freelance critic. Now the editor of a revamped Granta, he is here with a book that should set off some ripples, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox (Scribner). It's the subtitle that hints at what helps set this book apart: context and perspective, including periods when it was widely felt there might be too much hand-written correspondence going on. It's funny, it's serious, it opens eyes and minds. "John Freeman brilliantly explores the paradox that increasingly defines our lives: the more we 'connect' through the Internet, the more disconnected we become. Closely argued and historically informed, The Tyranny of E-mail couldn't be more timely." - James Shapiro.
