Apr
4
What’s Bookish In The Pink Light Of Spring?
April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
…An eternal poem etched on the roads of a town, a novelist who took a 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail and lived to tell the tale, an NPR word nerdy piece that references my favorite book as a child…
Mar
28
Do You Have A Lawn Library Yet?
March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Lawn gnomes are so 2011. The miniature library is coming to a lawn near you…
Mar
6
I’ve saved up so many links this week to share with you – I am not sure where to start. How about another list-y style post? Two Bookish Videos: 1. Come on All You Ghosts Matthew Zapruder reads poetry selections at LitQuake in San Francisco. 2. The identity of The Rumpus’ own Sugar of “Dear [...]
Feb
11
What Does Terminology Have To Do With It?
February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
We like to watch for memes. Here’s a recent one (and a funny one!)… FUCK YOUR NOGUCHI COFFEE TABLE Also, a thoughtful piece on the term “e-book” (is it the “horseless carriage” of our times?)… Technology Time Lines by David Wilk of Booktrix E-books are to books what horseless carriages are [...]
Feb
4
Morality Tales and “random bullshit” from Cyberlandia…
February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Here are a few goodies from our friends in book related cyberlandia – The following “Publishing Talk” introduces us to John Sundman, a free thinking visionary blogging at Wetmachine, a blog that self-describes as covering such diverse brainiac topics as “software praxis, technoparanoia, the craft of writing, self-publishing, politics, and random bullshit….” – Publishing [...]
Jan
4
Shhhh. The Silence Is Coming.
January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Turn off and unplug why don’t you?
Dec
2
Literary Round Up
December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Here is something I’ve had on my list to share with you for a while – better late than never. Enjoy this transcript of a brilliant speech by the late David Foster Wallace. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS IN MEMORIAM The world of letters has lost a giant. We have felt nourished by [...]
Nov
23
Old School Books Win In The Children’s Book Market
November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Parents tend to choose old fashioned paper books over e-books for their children…
Oct
24
The Revolution will Be Novelized
October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
We’ve all seen how literature is a tool of protest and revolution: Publishing your views sure beats throwing molotov cocktails, and it also seems to be much more effective. We’ve blogged on this in the past, here. (I am looking forward to the first books about the Occupy Wall Street movement.) In this vein, friends [...]
Oct
7
Tomas Tranströmer has won the Noble Prize in Literature. Here‘s a bit about it from the LA Times: Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, in translation Poet Tomas Tranströmer is well known in Sweden, but here in the U.S. he hasn’t become the household name of, say, your average Kardashian. Winning the Nobel Prize in literature [...]