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 [...]
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…
Nov
3
A Book We Want To Read, and two other things…
November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
We want to read this: Nuclear Romance, a debut novel by New York journalist Abby Luby, was written after the devastating accident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plants in March, 2011. In the novel, the tragic and mysterious death of a 7-year old girl after swimming at a beach across [...]
Oct
26
Thinking Outside The Book
October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment
These are books. These are also books. …and so is this. What else? Enjoy this TED Talk on next generation digital books: “Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our [...]
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 [...]
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
18
Where Is The Future? And Where Isn’t It?
August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The new world of publishing may mean doing some things differently, but it doesn’t mean throwing everything out that’s worked for so many years…