2009
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Pictory Magazine’s San Francisco Feature
The newly-launched and amazing Pictory Magazine just published a beautiful and interesting showcase of twenty-eight photos of San Francisco; don’t miss their first showcase, Overseas and Overwhelmed, either!
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Morning Coffee
Dash Shaw’s mini-comic for Vice is pretty great. Britain’s first full-scale high speed rail is up and running (and pretty looking!) In case you forgot, Big Picture’s photographs of 2009 completed today! As long as we’re recapping: the decade in…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #18: Some Questions About the Tradition
Johnny Cash’s late covers are superior to their original recordings, but are they traditional?
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How To Write Memoir
This Friday, in Brooklyn, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is giving a lecture on using your life in your writing, using examples from The Adderall Diaries. He’ll talk about writing about people that might not want to be written about, who…
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eBook Rights
“After noting that most of Random House’s backlist titles grant the publisher electronic book rights […], [CEO Markus Dohle] writes that ‘there have been some misunderstandings concerning ebook rights in older backlist titles.’ He then proceeds to argue that older…
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Seth on the Quiet Art of Cartooning
Recently I was reminded of this lovely little essay by the cartoonist Seth, about the solitary art of cartooning. From his description I’d say that cartooning — at least fiction cartooning such as Seth practices — sounds exactly like fiction…
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Reviewer and Reviewee
Shya Scanlon posted on Big Other about an extremely harsh review of Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash written by Tom Bissell for the New York Times. The post led to a long back-and-forth with John Madera, also a contributor to…
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Painted Leviathan
Inspired by Zak Smith, who illustrated Gravity’s Rainbow page by page, Matt Kish has set out to illustrate every page of Melville’s Moby Dick. You can find more of Kish’s work here, and learn more about his ongoing project thanks…
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Yue Minjun: It Is Funny
Almost everything that Chinese artist Yue Minjun paints, sculpts or prints includes at least one man—closely resembling the artist himself—locked in laughter. Minjun’s work is delightful, infectious and brightly ironic. His men laugh through any situation, in any state of…
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Random Media Notes
Editor & Publisher will publish January issue — hope remains? Magazines get ready for the tablet. Over 15,000 people have lost their jobs in the newspaper industry this year. France pledges nearly $1.1 billion to digitize French literary works. Miami…