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ALL ENTRIES FROM May 2007
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.
Posted in: Publishers Blog,
May 01, 2007
Harvard Coop Event with Marc Estrin and Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum, a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago Law School, became the object of Alan Krieger’s affection in his golemic search for the perfect woman. So, with her permission, I wrote his lust, and her parry into Golem Song.
Posted in: Authors Blog,
ALL ENTRIES FROM April 2007
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.
Posted in: Publishers Blog,
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.
Posted in: Publishers Blog,
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.
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April 05, 2007
Hick
I acquired Hick, not just for the story, but for the sound of the first-person narrative, which surprises me. To a great many new writers, first-person seems the easiest way to tell a story, but it is by far the most difficult to pull off with authenticity.
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ALL ENTRIES FROM March 2007
March 20, 2007
The law of attraction
Someone surprised me last week by asking why it is that I think the publishing industry is so threatened and the publishing future so dark. What surprised me most about the question was that it apparently arose from a reading of this blog.
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