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…
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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…
What the Nobel Prize Does for Small Publishers
Over at The Millions, C. Max Magee has written an article about what being awarded the Nobel Prize does for a book and its publisher from an American perspective. Being…
A Kind Defense of the Kindle
Stephen Marche has an article in the Wall Street Journal about how, as of now, “the Kindle 2 will become the first e-reader available globally. The only other events as…
One of These Things is Not Like the Others
Stephanie Johnson’s microfiction creates rich subtext in few words, making each story complicated and true, and each character alive and familiar.
Google’s Unicorn Defense
This week in the New York Times, Google co-founder Sergey Brin wrote an op-ed about Google’s efforts in the realm of digitizing so-called orphan books. Despite ongoing legal drama, Brin…
‘Why have novelists ceded their ground to science?’
“The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain within the Anglo-American novel. What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or…
Michelle Threadgould: The Last Zine I Loved, Cometbus #52: The Spirit of St. Louis
I grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of a man who arguably loved jazz music more than he loved me. So when I say that I grew up in…
E-Doldrums: A Book Publisher Confronts E-Books
I know e-books are a cheaper product – both to produce and consume – and I’m certain that writers do too.
Books, Guns, and Brains
Over at Mind Hacks they’ve got a post running called “A brain signature for literacy.” It’s covering a neuroscience study done that shows “how the structure of the brain changes…