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June 03, 2007
I fear the photograph
What have I seen at the show? Julianne Moore looking quite real while signing colorful sheets of paper
May 22, 2007
The right to an opinion
It seems to me that the blogging response to Richard Schickel’s piece in the L. A. Times has been admirably restrained. How easy it would be to fly off the handle at a class warrior who can and does decry the arrival of “hairy-chested populism” in the pages of a daily newspaper; such a critic reveals himself at the turn of his every phrase, and most every phrase is assailable.
May 15, 2007
Only Remarking
On the way out of town on Saturday morning, I picked up a copy of Michael Chabon’s ubiquitous new novel.
Have you seen the cover? Forget the cover; have you seen the spine?
May 08, 2007
Review inches, wampeters, and blogjams
The present verbal friction between traditional print-media reviewers and the lit-bloggers seems to me a distraction from the real problem we all face together.
May 01, 2007
M’aidez
Much has justifiably been written recently on the constricting changes in newspaper book review coverage — changes at The Raleigh News & Observer, the Chicago Tribune, the L. A. Times, last year at The Dallas Morning News, and in too many other papers. We hear rumors of more such changes to come.
April 24, 2007
Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo and Blair
A few weeks ago I spoke to a university class called Introduction to Publishing. I talked assertively, right out loud from behind a low table, just as though I believed this industry to be in any way controllable or predictable.
April 17, 2007
as the swallow
There is little that should be said today in this circumscribed forum. But I have been thinking this: T. S. Eliot’s line about April is only a depressive’s assertion about baseless hope and the melding of desire with sad memory. It is nothing more than that. It is not a metaphysical observation.
April 10, 2007
Chaotic attractors
We might be able to save a great deal of heartache, ink, paper, and bitter anticipation were there available to us a Chaos Theory of Readership.