Archive for January, 2011
I have working a good deal with Bowker of late and have found their twitter feed a good resource, especially during this past week of Digital Book World. Here is a taste of Bowker’s latest insights into book consumers via their twitter feed:
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Here is a piece I did using Bach’s Italian Concerto and Concerto in Cm with some rearrangements and played on an analog synth and pumped through some reverb units (with some added effects, of course…).
A great case for not basing characters on real people: getting shot.
The notable exception — perhaps the most spectacular crime in American literary history — took place 100 years ago this month when Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough expressed his supreme displeasure with what he believed was the depiction of his family in the novel “The [...]
With BGI saying they will be unable to pay their suppliers, here is an article on the history of Borders and what brought it to the place it is in now.
Sometime when Borders tried to solve a problem, like getting a new inventory system for its mall stores in the mid 2000s, it managed to [...]
List of literary critics who have stood test of time:
Hue Kenner
Martin Amos
Ezra Pound – ABC of Reading
Dorthy Parker – The Constant Reader column in the New Yorker
Alfred Kazin
And then there is:
• Benedetto Croce: Aesthetic
• A. C. Bradley: Poetry for Poetry’s Sake
• Sigmund Freud: Creative Writers and Daydreaming
• Ferdinand de Saussure: Course in General Linguistics
• Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Structural Study of [...]
As always, Mike Shatzkin is full of ideas. he has had a few entries on his blog recently about marketing. One I wish to remember is the ability to market backlist in ebook files using links. Just like in print format, except the link is able to take you diretly to a store page for [...]
The Scholarly Kitchen has a recent article on the difference between new publishers created since the increase in digital awareness compared to older publishers that have to recalibrate their business model. The newer publishers have the advantage that of not having to recreate themselves while maintaining “fidelity to old partners or ways of doing business.” [...]
The NY Times has posted a series of articles on why criticism matters. The series attempts to further the dialogue Alfred Kazin began fifty years ago. Here is an excerpt from Stephen Burns’ piece:
Some writers may try to seal themselves off from the crackling energy of the Web, but the contemporary novel’s form is always [...]
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