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 [...]
Sep
30
Stories From The Backseat
September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Here’s a voice that has been mostly unheard of in books – A Chicago taxi driver has written a book brimming with rich stories of cab life: Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab… A ‘Hack’ Shares Years Of Stories From A Chicago Cab “A cab driver’s job is relatively straightforward: shuttle riders from door to [...]
Aug
31
Have You Been Floated Yet?
August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Think of “Float” as a bigger, better fork with which to consume more and more giant bites of the delicious salad of multimedia.
Aug
24
The Writer in Politics
August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When it rains it pours! We’ve had so many fantastic guest posts recently. Thank you, thank you. And special thanks this week to Leora Skolkin-Smith for allowing us to post her wonderful piece from the Fiction Studio Books blog. Enjoy… The Writer In Politics by Leora Skolkin-Smith The question of “The Writer in Politics†is [...]
Aug
11
Crunching Books
August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
Finally someone innovates the e-book publishing platform – BiblioCrunch.com.
Aug
5
Our friend David Wilk over at Bootktrix (“Every trick in the book!”) has a new blog post up about the end of Borders Books. He has kindly allowed Livewires to repost the piece here. Thank you David! For more breaking news on publishing and books please visit the Booktrix blog and the Booktrix website (creative [...]