The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s Sunday, which means Rumpus Books has a week’s worth of book reviews for you, plus two interviews, a conversation about the future of the Internet, and an essay on…
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Things to Think About: Publishing Links
Richard Nash on “The Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishing” Booksellers ask the Justice Department to investigate the book price war under way between Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target. Google opponents urge…
Booty Hunting for the Brainy
Bibliophiles of the world, take note: if you are not an inhabitant of the Twin Cities, you could be missing a chance to put your literary acumen to practical use.…
Conversations About the Internet #3: Jonathan Zittrain on Civility and Freedom Online
I think we’re really at a place where it’s hard to predict the future, where governments haven’t fully realized just how much power is falling into their laps, nor have…
With All Due Respect to Cormac McCarthy
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold and the ditch he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Not in a weird way.”…
Universal Authorship
You saw it coming. Your grandma has a blog and your friend’s tweets are invading whatever small sliver of silent privacy you had left. We’re all becoming authors. Is this…
Richard LeComte: The Last Book I Loved, The Assassin’s Song
Having read several textbooks in library science and young adult novels over the past few months, my memory turns eagerly back to The Assassin’s Song by M. G. Vassanji, which…
This Stanza Isn’t Alike
Over at FLATMANCROOKED, Aaron Davidson writes about his pleasing experience using Stanza: an iPhone application used primarily for reading books. Specifically, Davidson muses upon his reading of H.G. Wells’ The…
Olive or Twist?
“Deus Ex Machina + Fantasy = Eagles” A surprise ending cheat sheet from the webcomic Dresden Codak: “42 Essential Third-Act Twists For Writers.” (via Boing Boing)
What Is an Anthem
A poet doesn’t review the poems in G.C. Waldrep’s Archicembalo—she listens to them.
Stephanie Johnson’s Microfiction
“This book is like a photo album made of pictures collected at random from people on a busy street; each story is a single moment that comes from a different…