Jul
20
All My Friends Have Gone The F*ck To Sleep.
July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment
In the snarky vein of Go The F*ck To Sleep, the book marketing sensation of recent internet meme fame, comes a new one: All My Friends Are Dead. It is zapping over the electron highway to a social network near you – and soon, very soon, probably to the bookshelves of at least half the [...]
Jun
18
HOW TO READ All DAY (Except While Driving)
June 18, 2011 | 1 Comment
Reposting this one for the week because our readers seemed to like it. Enjoy! Let’s talk about reading. Not reading material, but reading in terms of actual eyes to paper or screen, letter by letter, reading. I am the world’s slowest reader. When I was an associate agent at Writer’s House agency in New York [...]
May
14
Book Nerd Consumergasm
May 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
What you need and what you read are conspicuously intertwined.
Apr
27
The Monstrous Sewing Circle of Social Media
April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Here are a few things plucked from the land of social media that I may never have heard about otherwise: 1. THE SECRET GARDEN Penguin Classic embroidered book jacket: http://bit.ly/hDI2uX (Thanks @thebookmaven). I want all of these framed and in my hallway. Please help. 2. Ted Wilson Reviews the World #81 – “Hello, and welcome [...]
Mar
31
Our Invisible Apocalypse
March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I’ll tell you a secret. I am an Atlantis freak. That is, I strongly believe that highly advanced human civilizations have risen and fallen perhaps countless times on our planet – with only a few broken down megaliths as evidence. Newsflash: Everything we make is impermanent, unless we make it absurdly huge (so as not [...]
Oct
20
Queens, Cafes, Baseball and Writing
October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Is Queens, NY and its crop of new authors taking up the slack where Brooklyn (and Jonathan Lethem) let up? Queens actually offers some coffee houses where writers can still plug in and type for hours without being kicked to the curb, and so, may indeed transform itself into a literary mecca one cafe at [...]
Oct
15
200 Bloggers Review 200 Green Books!
October 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
Here’s a wonderful thing for publishing and the environment: On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time 200 bloggers will take a stand to support books printed on environmental paper by simultaneously publishing reviews of 200 such books. Launched in 2009 by Eco-Libris, this campaign is aiming to promote “green†books by reviewing 200 [...]
Aug
26
Comics. We Want to Read More of Them.
August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Comics. Have they been demoted to coffee break Facebook ephemera, or are they alive and kicking butt out in the Darwinian thunderdome of the litsphere? Regardless, some of the comic fodder found online right now is goddamn brilliant. For example, check out The Oatmeal. Here’s a teaser (click the banner). More serious comic book fare [...]
Jul
29
Super Good Awesome Great New Book
July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
We intellectual types and artistic folk (please note that I am rolling my eyes as I type that) focus on appreciating good art so much of the time, but what about the bad art? Ok, so reading a bad book wastes a lot of our precious time so let’s not bother with that if we [...]
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 [...]