Live-Blogging a Book, and the Earthquake

A soldier carries an elderly man on his back to a shelter in Natori city, Miyagi prefecture on March 12, 2011. More than 1,000 people were feared dead and authorities warned a meltdown may be under way at a nuclear plant after a monster tsunami devastated a swathe of northeast Japan. JAPAN OUT AFP PHOTO / YOMIURI SHIMBUN (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

I don’t know if makes sense to blog on a book by a woman who’s dead, who wrote about photographs and the news. But new media allows us to try new things, unedited. Here goes: In Regarding the Pain of Others, which I began, unknowingly, on the…