2011
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Some More on BlazeVOX
Reb Livingston, the publisher of No Tell Books, has written a post about the economics of her own press in the light of the BlazeVOX controversy. What kinds of sales numbers are we talking about for poetry collections? “No Tell…
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A Novel with a Novel Website
Paul La Farge’s novel is coming to your local bookseller’s shelves soon. Luminous Airplanes, is about a man cleaning up his deceased grandfather’s home. His book’s got an accompanying website with sample passages and new material, in the spirit of…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/6-9/11
This week in San Francisco…!!! Tuesday 9/6: Comedians and collaborators Boots Riley and W. Kamau Bell discuss their careers, dreams, and years of incorporating the political and personal into the totally hilarious. All proceeds go towards the tour for Bell’s…
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10/40/70 #37: Marnie
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1964):
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Sometimes Google gets it wrong … which can be rough on the small businesses it marks as “closed” when they’re actually not. Has email driven the closure of the US Postal Service? Oooh, a pretty series of infographics on the…
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September Lit Events in NYC
New York’s September’s got a slew of literary events, brought to you by Housing Works Bookstore Café at 126 Crosby in SoHo. The events range from internet meme-themed variety shows, teacher appreciation happy hours to travel writing book groups, but…
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Pornographic Barn Owl
PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL: Flyshit Midnite The triumphant return of Ian Huebert’s amazing Rumpus Comic!
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An Awesome Resource for Kids and Everybody
The International Children’s Digital Library is providing free access to books, hoping to collect books from all cultures and languages in order to preserve a sense of family heritage and promote free access to information that extends beyond language barriers.…
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Growing Out of It
A descendant of Cheever, Stuart Nadler traces evolving relationships with delicate, precise prose in his debut short story collection, The Book of Life.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you are wondering what the proper protocol is when looking for a yeti in the 50s. Have y’all been following the constitutional goings on in Iceland these days? I go out of town for two weeks and somehow I…
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The Death (and Resurrection) of BlazeVOX
It all started, as it so often seems to these days, with a blog post.