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ALL ENTRIES FROM July 2007
July 18, 2007
The Text Entire
In the Tang years we were constantly being told that in the future all of our nutritional needs would be met in pill form, as though our palates were not an integral part of who we are.
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July 10, 2007
bLinking
Publishing—an entrenched old industry, made rigid by fear and habit, instinctually conservative, codified, hierarchical, exclusionary, and terrified—is in historic throes at a moment of radical forced change. When I say it’s busier than any other industry I know of, I mean it’s busy being reborn.
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July 03, 2007
trouble in mind
A few weeks ago, a publishing colleague and good friend told me he thought I might be trouble to deal with because I’ve spent my life reading novels.
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ALL ENTRIES FROM June 2007
June 21, 2007
Boat-in-the-Sky Dreams
by Layne Maheu
The big new movie this week is about some gray-bearded guy and a boat full of animals. The world ends. Everyone drowns. It’s a comedy, the latest in what promises to be a “So-and-So Almighty” series. The only reason I’m paying more attention to the routine hype for this blockbuster as opposed to all the other Spiderman Threes and Shrek Twelves and Ocean Thirteens is that, well, hey, they can’t steal that story; I already did.
Posted in: Authors Blog,
June 19, 2007
Designating and Signifying
The post was to be something about “designated” and, therefore, undesignated books—a term I first heard at Putnam sales conferences. I wanted to get something in there too about Amazon’s selling the new Harry Potter at a loss and about what that used to be called . . .
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June 15, 2007
Letters to a Young Poet, Letters to a Ghost
by M. Allen Cunningham
I was fourteen years old when my mother, somehow recognizing my writerly inclinations in a way I could not, put into my hands a copy of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet.
Posted in: Authors Blog,
June 07, 2007
Weather Report
by Marc Estrin
The Charlotte Observer offers up a reflection on the plight of right-wing publishers at the recent Book Expo America. Lost, it thinks, they are, jetsam floating among the “dependably Democratic publishing crowd”, their offerings “unsure who to attack, and who to defend.” Right wing publishers, claims the headline, are “worried about the future.”
Posted in: Authors Blog,
June 06, 2007
Andrea Portes at BEA
by Andrea Portes
My publisher has no idea I’ve been here exactly two hours for investigative purposes…there is no other possible reason why I would get to a bar two hours early. I promise.
Posted in: Authors Blog,
June 04, 2007
The invisibility of the new
I have one last observation to make about BEA.
Posted in: Publishers Blog,
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
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