Charlottesville Words

• CRITICAL MASS: Some Good News from NPR.org
  “We’re building up our book coverage because book content really works for our audience,” NPR senior supervising producer Joe Matazzoni told Reid. “Books are among the top three topics attracting traffic to the NPR site.”
• Critics Have Feelings, Too – 6/16/2008 – Publishers Weekly
  So, unlike most critics, [James] Wood knows what it’s like to both deliver and receive pans. …“I think as I get older…I’m more aware of the danger of being involved in an occupation that hurts people’s feelings.”
• Taking Comfort in Radio: A Psychiatrist Listens to Car Talk | Psychology Today Blogs
  What my patient liked best was Car Talk…. She found Ray and Tom emotionally trustworthy. They had little edge, little false pride…. Ray and Tom did not threaten. Outside of psychotherapy, Click and Clack constituted her most intimate social exposure.
• Summarized Cinema: Science Movies Explained in a Sentence: Scientific American
  Alien: A feisty cat survives tense times onboard a spaceship. Starship Troopers: Valiant insects try to repel totalitarian invaders. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Kirk, Spock and McCoy blend right in while visiting late 20th-century San Francisco.
• The Millions: The Most Anticipated Books of the Rest of 2008
  “There are many, many intriguing books on the docket for the next six months, but these are some of the most notable.”
• Literary Rejections on Display: F.U., You Slimy Lizards
  “Thank you for your recent missive, postmarked June 24, 2008, in response to my submission mailed on November 22, 2006. I appreciated finally hearing back from you, and I especially liked the one-eighth-page form rejection note.”
• BiblioBuffet – Writing Worth Reading, Reading Worth Writing About – A Reading Life
  Designing the perfect bookstore.
• There Are No Rules – How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Writing Career (#6)
  Are you sabotaging your writing career? This series will let you know.

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