May 2012
5 posts
Los Angeles Literary Calendar →
Delighted to discover this site listing literary happenings in the LA area.
April 2012
9 posts
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The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection... →
Fascinating that there are as many books from 1910 available now as those published between 2000-2010, but far fewer books from the 1930s - 1980s.
As the e-publishing revolution continues, expect more books like Fifty Shades of...
– After ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ What’s Next for Self-Publishing? - Sarah Fay - Entertainment - The Atlantic
March 2012
6 posts
Anne Lamott's sequel to 'Operating Instructions': ... →
“You pretty much have control over only what’s in your own hula hoop, which means that all you can do is get it all down, the powerlessness of everything.”
February 2012
8 posts
The Two Things game →
bobulate:
Economist Glen Whitman on The Two Things:
A few years ago, I was chatting with a stranger in a bar. When I told him I was an economist, he said, “Ah. So… what are the Two Things about economics?” “Huh?” I cleverly replied. “You know, the Two Things. For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or...
January 2012
7 posts
Fragmentary: Writing in a Digital Age | The... →
“Fragmentary writing captures the tension between “digital” and “analog” reading better than anything else out there. And that tension, in many ways, is the defining feature of the contemporary reading experience.”
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...
– Jonathan Coulton (via merlin)
December 2011
8 posts
Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing... →
The bibliophile’s property rights, or why the osmosis of agreement and disagreement belongs in a book’s margins.
November 2011
13 posts