All of us who continue to read about the revolution in Egypt and much else at his blog will really dig Graham Harman's new review (in the Los Angeles Review of Books) of the just published Tweets from Tahir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It.
Harman's review is itself a great capsule history of the earth shaking events of January 25 through February 11, 2011. He concludes with:
It is often said that good authors disappear and allow us to focus only on the scenes they describe. If the same can be said of good editors, then Nunns and Idle clearly pass the test. With their excellent selection of tweets and the light touch of their editorial voiceovers, they succeeded in allowing this reviewer to forget he was reading a book at all, and simply to relive the Revolution as it unfolded.
Man this book looks excellent; I'm amazoning it tonight.
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