Let's not pretend that our anxiety over the future of literature is anything more than self-interest

Right now, I'm sitting in the Brody Learning Commons, which has to be the coolest library on the Eastern Seaboard. You know how other colleges have student unions? Well, Hopkins doesn't have one. Instead, the administration here was like, "What if we built a massive four-story library...but didn't put any books in it?"

Never realized how much fun it cou…