February 2012
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“In this publishing climate (which feels more like the wild west than a bunch of...”
– via 365 Days of Book Publicity
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(un)justly (un)read: A visual poem by dsh, from... →
unjustlyunread:
A visual poem by dsh, from Begin Again: A Book of Reflections and Reversals (w/ an introduction by Stefan Themerson).
Some of the other poems in the book are printed on loose translucent papers, which are housed in pages that serve as pockets. A reader has to flip and/or rotate the poems…
“What did you think, that joy
was some slight thing?”
– Mark Doty, from “Visitation” (via the-final-sentence)
Subjects Discussed: Journalists who attack...
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Thanks to a superb translation by Marian Shwartz,...
January 2012
15 posts
Inch By Inch
lareviewofbooks:
MORT PERSKY on the art of the newspaper column. Photograph by Ralph Schoenstein
John Avlon, Jesse Angelo, and Errol Louis Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columnists Overlook Press, September 2011. 432 pp. A mere 60 years ago, at the front end of my love-hate affair with the published word, I went to work for a “real” newspaper, the first one willing to pay an...
“Stephen Fry tells about arriving at...
““I was asked one time how I would define a ‘classic’.
A...”
– R.J. Ellory, author of A Quiet Vendetta
Charlie Campell, author of Scapegoat, interviewed...
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COLE STRYKER: I am not a hacker. →
stryker:
But in my recent research, I’ve talked with a lot of them. Not just the “lololol we r legion” kind either. The real deal. Guys who now work for McAfee or run their own security contracting firms. When I asked them about whether further government restrictions on internet behavior, like SOPA and…
“Very simply, the worst book you could ever write is the book that you believe...”
– R.J. Ellory, author of A Quiet Belief in Angels, The Anniversary Man, A Simple Act of Violence, and this week’s A Quiet Vendetta.
via: The Big Thrill
December 2011
13 posts
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the...”
– Writing tips from F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died today in 1940. Hopefully screenwriter and director Baz Luhrmann has studied up for his 2012 Gatsby adaptation.
The Ghost of Books: Part I
lareviewofbooks:
“As for wishes, it used to be that whenever I’d see a Portis novel in a used bookstore (Cliff’s in Pasadena is a trove), I’d pick it up and throw it in the back of my station wagon to hand off to any deserving new friend. I have read Norwood maybe eighteen times, and it only gets funnier: “You think I don’t know that people don’t like me on account of my personality?” ...
Happy Birthday Betty Smith
“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn’t fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.”
—A Tree Grows in...
Finished The Fry Chronicles today
personaltonks:
The quote on the back is so bloody true - you want to hug the book over and over again. Just genuinely interesting and a pleasure to read. The first autobiography I’ve read - and that is something for I actually can’t stand the mere thought of them.
I liked the last bit the best - so many brilliant anecdotes *-* Douglas Adams (with whom I seem to share the same excruciating...
WatchCarrie Hagen discusses the first kidnapping for ransom in American history, the subject for her new book We Is Got Him. The 1874 disappearance of Charley Ross shocked Pennsylvanians and elicited a national manhunt to discover his captors, whose cryptic note inspired the book’s title. Carrie will be speaking tonight at the Swarthmore Public Library. Register here for free admission, and be...
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it...”
– Willa Cather, born today in 1873
