Little, Brown recently uploaded nearly 4,000 words of blurbs and clips from positive reviews to The Art of Fielding’s Amazon page. WE GET IT. CRITICS AND AWARD-WINNING NOVELISTS LOVED THE BOOK. Since Little, Brown printed 5,000 advance copies of Chad Harbach’s debut literary novel, every…
(Source: thejigsawtimess, via bookalicious)
Sometimes I like a book so much, I just have to match my outfit to its cover. Example, Alan Bennett’s Smut.
Anyone else do this? No? Just me?
(via bibliofiliac)
The recent illustrations of Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-recognition based assistant, failing to provide information to users about abortion, birth control, help after rape and help with domestic violence has gotten a lot of notice. Yesterday’s post with screenshots from a Twitter conversation I was…
Over the years I’ve developed an unenviable reputation as a serial track-changer. That is, I put on a bit of music for a friend, eagerly await the looks of rapture I assume will surely come over them, and then—either when said looks don’t appear or I think of something better to play—I change the…
Before I left for this trip, one of the things I was most looking forward to was the
bus travel. No, really. Overland overseas travel is guilty pleasure of mine — a revelation-rich unspooling of the countryside, towns, and people, while you yourself get to sit back, generally unnoticed. On…
I have self published 3 books. But I’ve never really been good at the self-promotion thing, and I’ve been told that my books need a good editor. So, since nobody buys my books, I’m seeking a literary agent.
You little minx. You certainly know how to tempt an agent.
Lisa: You’re reading Gravity’s Rainbow?
Brownie: Re-reading it.
Arthur Miller: The Crucible
Reader Submission: Title by Sydney Redigan
(A Reader’s Redux post: see the original Better Book Title for The Crucible here.)
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“Google glasses” could “stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.”
But I get enough of a headache when I wear 3D glasses…
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