Constantly Checking Your Inbox? Email Addiction Explainedbr Book Passage - Book Passagebr John Freeman talks about The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox.The former president of the National Book Critics Circle and current American Editor of Granta, gives us a history of people's need for correspondence. He examines the astonishing growth of e-mail -- how it is changing lives, and not always for the better.