A Writer's Desk

Thoughts on books, readings and writings.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Are Vooks the Future of Book Publishing?

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That's the question recently posed by the Wall Street Journal . From the piece... You can find a Sherlock Holmes book in just about any...

What's the Story Behind Genre Fiction's Covers?

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Just because there's a bad cover for a science fiction or fantasy book, it doesn't mean they're not worthy of reading. Far from ...

The 8.5 Million Dollar Used Book Investment

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There's a local story in the Seattle Times about used books on the internet. From the piece... Thrift Recycling Management, one of the...

How Authors Move Their Own Merchandise

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The Wall Street Journal discusses self-promotion. From the piece... "Some author—I don't remember who—had a drawing for iPads, and...

Top Ten Dead Bodies in Literature

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From Dante to Raymond Carver, the Guardian selects stories of lost lives that coalesce around a 'central absence.'
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Monkeys You Ordered

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Here you'll find a site that gives you literal translations of New Yorker cartoons.

"Hello, Novel. Meet the Internet."

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We spend hours on the web, but you wouldn't know that from reading contemporary fiction. Novelists have gone to great lengths – setting ...

The Worst Sentence Ever Published in the English Language

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Does it come from the Harlequin Romance pictured above? The Pitch thinks it might.

Comics Stripped

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Benzinga highlights a new exhibit on comic books that's opened recently at the Museum of Sex. From the article... During the Great Depr...

Neal Cassady: Drug-taker, Bigamist, Family Man

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The Guardian takes note of Jack Kerouac's pal Neal Cassady, immortalized in On the Road , by meeting up with his wife who is still alive...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Matt Taibbi Interviewed

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The great journalist interviewed on Big Think:

Joseph Conrad's Sci-Fi Novel

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The Guardian discusses it, here .

The Karma Bum

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When Allen Ginsberg stayed with the family of a young Tyler Stoddard Smith, the two played video games and read together. But the harmony wa...

"A Wrinkle in TIme" in 90 Seconds

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"A Wrinkle In Time" In 90 Seconds from James Kennedy on Vimeo .
Monday, January 17, 2011

Who Started All This "Great American Novel" Business, Anyway?

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The man pictured above. Find out more, here .

The Best Beards on Writers

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The list , care of Dan Powell.

The LA Times Has Coffee with Thomas Pynchon

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Well, sort of .

The JFK Library - Online

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The presidential library commemorating the life of US President John F Kennedy is digitizing every scrap of paper, video, audio and artofact...

Case Closed

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CBS News is reporting that a Dashiell Hammett story is finally getting released, years after the author's death. From the story ... ...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

How's Good Ol' Book Reading Going in Korea?

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Like gangbusters , notes the Korea Times .
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