Aug
19
A Book Betrays A Nation?
August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Not only does this case (see the article below) possibly mark the start of a new, international legal trend because it proves that people can be sued across borders, but what are the ramifications for the publishing world?
Is this author guilty of betraying a nation? Are the cultural differences on the two sides of this […]
Jul
22
My Mother and The Hippy Mafia
July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
What’s your mother reading this summer? My mom happens to be reading the book Orange Sunshine - a book about the LSD culture in the ’60s and a group of smugglers and hippy-philosophers called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, of which Timothy Leary was an integral part. This choice of summer reading may seem out […]
Jul
8
“The Poetry Revolution is Now”
July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment
“The Poetry Revolution is Now”
Those are words I heard spoken on NPR this morning as I was driving my daughter to preschool. And I agree, although I have no idea by what dark magic poetry manages to remain alive. So many people would love to see it dead on the curb, a victim of multiple […]
Jun
3
Curmudgeons
June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Yes, I am jealous of the literati. Especially jealous of anyone who gets to go to this: The One Story Literary Debutante Ball
So, if you are reading this and you feel like inviting me next year. “Yes.”
Grumpily I face the fact that I am not (yet) a famous author, so I shall now, grumpily, offer […]
May
19
Pixel Poems and Journal Bytes
May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
From the Gadget Lab at Wired comes news of an “app” called Scarab that may finally catch the attentions of quasi-neo-luddites who feel as though eReader technologies are horse flies in their milk. Also, this app may land happily in the journal-starved hands of techno-appreciative word wizards, folks like me who would rather have a […]
May
6
Livewires has a crush on LITOPIA podcasts!
These brain friendly shows are produced by Litopia Writers’ Colony, one of the Internet’s oldest communities for writers. They aim to “inform, provoke, occasionally terrify”… but mostly – they want to entertain you! “Intelligent entertainment” would be a good way to put it: at a time when much of […]
Apr
20
Does A Watched Potboiler Boil?
April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday, as I tumbled through the rabbit hole of the interweb, I grabbed onto a root dangling from Galleycat. I skimmed some things and then the term “potboiler fiction” caught my eye and I lingered there a while. Potboiler fiction seems to be something no serious author would aspire to create, and yet such fiction […]
Mar
4
Cryptofiction. It Lives.
March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Pardon me if my personal obsessions tend to float onto the screen via this blog, but what are blogs good for if bloggers can’t indulge in self-involved logorrhea from time to time? If it wasn’t already quite clear, I am interested in cryptozoology and the book I am struggling to complete happens to relate to […]
Feb
24
The Etch-a-Sketch for Grown Ups…
February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
It’s time to legitimize my eBook complaints and praises. I’ve finally, actually read some things on both the Kindle and the Nook. I was really surprised by the “etch-a-sketch” technology on the reading surfaces of both of these eReaders (this ingenius black-and-white display technology was developed by E Ink.) As a result, reading on them […]
Feb
17
book (s)news
February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Hello readers and welcome to a book “news” post. I tend to offer book news when I’ve decided that eBooks are tiresome to complain about, or when my muse is drunk on mint juleps in Palm Springs. The problem is, this week there is a whole lot of news on books written by people, who, […]