Jan
26
Confederacy of Funny
January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment
“Any fool can make you cry,” English novelist Howard Jacobson once stated in an interview. “If I want to see what a writer’s made of, I say, ‘Go on, make me laugh!’” Laughter. There’s never too much. This is why compiling a short list of funny books to read (or re-read) over the coming year is [...]
Jan
18
Please Don’t Burn Our Digital “Books”
January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment
In protest of digital book “burning”.
Jan
11
Visual Literacy
January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
I found this piece particularly interesting in light of how graphically driven content is these days – with iPads and eReaders providing so much of our reading material does it mean that we will become more visually literate as we gobble up the images in rapid succession? Visual Literacy of Our Images By Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (Furtherfield) [...]
Jan
4
Shhhh. The Silence Is Coming.
January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Turn off and unplug why don’t you?
Dec
28
A Bookish Mystery of Beauty
December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
It started with a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in a library…
Dec
21
It Is Impossible For Me to Do This Very Long List of Things…
December 21, 2011 | Comments Off
Lists of note…
Dec
14
My Cameo at The Rumpus: True Story
December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Hearthrobs and comic books.
Dec
7
Stopping Traffic with Haiku
December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
If it’s been a while since you’ve checked out our parent site LiveWriters, here’s a great sample of what’s over there – (Livewriters curates a wonderful sampling of booknerdy, and free, videos every day.) And now for something completely different. Haiku Traffic Signs Bring Poetry To NYC Streets by NPR STAFF If you’re walking or biking [...]
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…
Nov
12
Humiliation, Eternally Documented
November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When we’re writing, it’s inevitable that we will draw from our own experience. Whether in terms of story or character, there will almost always be shades of the self, flitting like ghosts in the margins. With the rise of blogging, social networks, and reality television, the lines of privacy are blurred to practically nothing. I’ve [...]