Dana Newman

Reading the future: Digital books and what’s to come for...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:27:12 -0800

Reading the future: Digital books and what’s to come for literature - Telegraph

Where the Sidewalk Ends.

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:33:06 -0800

Where the Sidewalk Ends.

The Wonderful and Terrible Habit of Buying Too Many Books...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:55:00 -0800

The Wonderful and Terrible Habit of Buying Too Many Books « PWxyz

newyorker: Cartoon of the day. For more cartoons from this...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:09:15 -0800

newyorker:

Cartoon of the day. For more cartoons from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/yOzeNo

The Two Things game

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:02:52 -0800

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 just not important.”

“Oh,” I said. “Okay, here are the Two Things about economics. One: Incentives matter. Two: There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”

Since, Glen has been playing this each time he meets someone from a different profession, which is how he gathered The Two Things about the Two Things:

1. People love to play the Two Things game, but they rarely agree about what the Two Things are.
2. That goes double for anyone who works with computers.

Head over to see his collection of The Two Things from binary systems to piloting an airplane, or a talk that wraps up with them. As for me: 1) intrigued, 2) curious if it could be edited down to only one thing.

I’m excited to announce the sale of Jennifer...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:11:00 -0800

I’m excited to announce the sale of Jennifer Graham’s comedic memoir Honey, Do You Need a Ride? Confessions of a Fat Runner, which will be published this fall by Breakaway Books. Drawn from a popular Newsweek article she wrote a few years ago, it’s about life as an endomorph runner (see more on this at her Endie Runners blog), or as Jennifer puts it, “There’s a divorce, and a white donkey in a tutu, but at its emotional center, Honey, Do You Need a Ride? is a love story, about a woman and her imperfect body, and the marvelous things it can do.“ Can’t wait to read it!

(via World Book Night)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:16:00 -0800

(via World Book Night)

Book Heart (via swissmiss)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:42:35 -0800

Book Heart (via swissmiss)

Fragmentary: Writing in a Digital Age | The Millions

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:29:24 -0800

Fragmentary: Writing in a Digital Age | The Millions:

“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 anti-piracy plan."

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:33:45 -0800

“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.”

- Jonathan Coulton (via merlin)

laughingsquid: Reading Technology

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:58:37 -0800

laughingsquid:

Reading Technology

Thrilled to announce the sale of Shirley Streshinsky and...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:16:00 -0800

Thrilled to announce the sale of Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus’ An Atomic Love Story: The Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life (working title), a true story of love, betrayal, power and intrigue, offering a new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures through the eyes of three unique women who pushed to the forefront of the social and cultural changes against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, to Turner Publishing.

Turner will also be publishing Shirley Streshinsky’s backlist titles, including her best-selling Hers the Kingdom, Gift of the Golden Mountain, A Time Between, The Shores Of Paradise, and the biography Audubon: Life And Art In The American Wilderness.

Bet this isn’t covered in the publishing contract! (via...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:32:43 -0800

Bet this isn’t covered in the publishing contract!

(via The Dave Eggers shower curtain - latimes.com)

Take a smile.

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:22:17 -0800

Take a smile.

Taking my new Nike+ watch out for its first run.

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:24:46 -0800

Taking my new Nike+ watch out for its first run.

Stencil art comes with dinner at Rivera.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:23:59 -0800

Stencil art comes with dinner at Rivera.

curiousnowhere: LAlove Gorgeous! …and really, you put Sigur Rós...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:28:57 -0800

curiousnowhere:

LAlove

Gorgeous! …and really, you put Sigur Rós over time lapse and I’m already hooked, not to mention I have a soft spot for films that capture what’s great about LA. I really didn’t stand a chance!

“Snow Globe Los Angeles was created using over 4000 still images…a homemade tilt-shift style lens, a light bulb filled with water, and paper cut outs to create shaped bokeh.”

jennygdc: I love it.

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:09:06 -0800

jennygdc:

I love it.

Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing | Brain Pickings

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:02:06 -0800

Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing | Brain Pickings:

The bibliophile’s property rights, or why the osmosis of agreement and disagreement belongs in a book’s margins.

My kind of Christmas tree - via Imgur

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:31:16 -0800

My kind of Christmas tree - via Imgur