"Seminar" (i.e., lots of quite learned but accessible blog posts by smart people, including replies by Francis Spufford himself) on the book at Crooked Timber (

"Seminar" (i.e., lots of quite learned but accessible blog posts by smart people, including replies by Francis Spufford himself) on the book at Crooked Timber (collaborative academic-ish blog): http://crookedtimber.org/category/red-plenty-seminar/ http://crookedtimber.org/category/red-plenty-seminar/. I particularly liked Cosma Shalizi's post at the start of the second page.