Book TV

It seems unanimous; the first episode of Titlepage.tv was a bust. There’s hope, however, that either it will improve, or some enterprising individuals will realize they can do it better.

Titlepage's first episode: All Over The Map. On this episode we "travel" across the world with some of the country's best novelists. This episode features fiction that takes us to the Lower East Side of New York, a midwestern college campus, the bustling stock exchange of Shanghai, and the neon streets of Las Vegas. Our guests are: Richard Price, Colin Harrison, Susan Choi and Charles Bock.

You’d think a TV channel dedicated to books would be a good thing, but the American cable channel Book TV is a threat to literacy. There is no fiction; there is no humor. Book TV features “only readings by smug academics flogging their most recent eruption of careerist logorrhea…and promotes the noxious idea that there should be an element of punishment in reading.”