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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Interesting New Yorker article on the state of publishing and the impact of the iPad, Amazon, and Google.
The article is long, but worth reading for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the realities of publishing and bookselling today.
Best quote: "Publishing exists in a continual state of forecasting its own demise; ...
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Just read an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal: "Good Novels Don't Have to Be Hard."
Lev Grossman says the key to the 21st-century novel is "the ongoing exoneration and rehabilitation of plot." He spends a good bit of time slamming the early 20th-century Modernists for being too difficult to ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
A Ballad for Baghdad—which I had the privilege of editing—is one of the most powerful books you'll ever read.
Ali Turner, an ex-hippie-chick Viet Nam War protester who describes herself as a "recovered socialista/feminista," tells of the personal transformation that led her to spend 3 years in Baghdad supporting the soldiers ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
One of the wonderful benefits of owning your own business is that your future is in YOUR hands and not resting at the mercy of a large corporation or the stock market.
Given all the bad economic news lately, wouldn't it be nice to be the one in control of your ...
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