May 2012
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“You see I was in a curious position in New York: it never occurred to me that I...”
– Joan Didion, in “Goodbye to All That,” from Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"All stories are about wolves. All worth...
Margaret Atwood (via sniffyjenkins)
“If someone were to ask me a year ago, I would have said, ‘Well, yeah, we’re not...”
– From When is a website not a website? For Talking Points Memo, the turning point was in 2012. An interesting way to approach all media, especially books.
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“This is where Joan Didion, “that consummate bard of cool,” spent much of her 20s...”
– Kim Velsey, in The New York Observer, on why the Upper East Side is now cool.
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Discombobulated: "Publication Date" by Franz... →
sniffyjenkins:
One of the few pleasures of writing is the thought of one’s book in the hands of a kindhearted intelligent person somewhere. I can’t remember what the others are right now. I just noticed that it is my own private National I Hate Myself and Want to Die Day (which means the next day I will love my life and want to live forever). The forecast calls for a cold night in Boston all...
“We live like this: no one but
some of the owls awake, and of them
only near...”
– “Love in the Country” by William Stafford, from Stories That Could Be True
7x20x21 at BEA 2012 →
amiwithani:
Once again, I will be hosting 7x20x21 at Book Expo America with my good friend (and closet breakdancer extraordinaire) Ryan Chapman.
If you’ve never attended 7x20x21 before, it’s an Ignite-style talk where speakers have 7 minutes and 20 powerpoint slides to tell you all about their current publishing obsessions.
Sadly, this event is open only to folks attending this year’s BEA in...
A story about the book industry I would actually... →
bookavore:
I am sure in every industry it is the same: nobody likes to read what non-industry reporters have to say about what they do for a living. It is almost always painful. This seems to be a special problem for the book industry. By their nature, journalists are likely to want to think about how the printed word is doing, and by its nature, the book industry is likely to read articles...
April 2012
12 posts
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The 13 Most Useless Majors →
nevver:
Fine Arts
Drama and Theater Arts
Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
Commercial Art and Graphic Design
Architecture
Philosophy and Religious Studies
English Literature and Language
Journalism
Anthropology and Archeology
Hospitality Management
Music
History
Political Science and Government
7 and 12 baby!
On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane
By Philip Levine Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane’s been drinking and has no idea who this curious Andalusian is, unable even to speak the language of poetry. The young man who brought them together knows both Spanish and English, but he has a headache from jumping back and forth from one language to another. For a moment’s relief he goes to the window to look down on the East River, darkening...
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Pentametron →
A site that searches twitter for tweets in iambic pentameter and then combines them into sonnets.
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“If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, in a letter to a book burner: “I am very real”
March 2012
6 posts
“Anyone who doesn’t read Cortázar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious...”
– Pablo Neruda, in the best blurb of all time, via Peter Mendulsund. (h/t Cameron Ackroyd)
“If you’re not approaching, I hope at least
You’re off to comfort...”
– “To Happiness” by Carl Dennis, from Unknown Friends
“The most telling thing about the instability of Gawker Media and its contrasting...”
– Choire Sicha, in Nieman Lab
Hari Kunzru’s fourth novel is his most ambitious... →
Best book of 2012 so far. Buy it buy it buy it.
February 2012
11 posts
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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative...
2008 - Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker, The New York Times, for their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials.
2009 - David Barstow, The New York Times, for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the ...
“Now, come to find that my book has been pulled in a dispute between Amazon and...”
– From Jim Hanas’ post: “Chickens, Roosting.
Go read all of Jim Hanas’ take on Amazon’s latest move, this time delisting IPG distributed ebooks. If you’re unfamiliar with the situation, please read the Publishers Lunch piece. Still have questions? Please email me or contact me on Tumblr. This is...
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“Come up with a clever variation of “I couldn’t put it down.”...”
– Blurb Rules, by Daniel Menaker.
(via pmautomat)
