Shannon Chamberlain — Pale Fire Project Abe Books Made $220K from 10 Rare Books – GalleyCat “Book dealer AbeBooks brought in $220,330 from the sales of 10 books alone. The bookseller sold Karl Marx’s Das Kapital in November for $51,739. A signed first edition of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird fetched $25,000.” Posted from [...]
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 7 Books Every Intelligent Person on Earth Should Read – GalleyCat “‘Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on planet?’ one literary Reddit user asked Neil deGrasse Tyson earlier this week. The famous physicist and author responded with a concise list of classic books. For your holiday reading [...]
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The Millions : Aragorn’s Publishing Company “Viggo Mortenson, a.k.a. Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, also happens to have started a publishing company. Perceval Press is devoted to showcasing the talents of little-known authors and artists who might otherwise go undiscovered.” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Prime Number Magazine Mating Habits of the Carolina Wren, by Christy Strick Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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PERPETUAL FOLLY: Latest Update to Prime Number Magazine: 13.5 “Prime Decimals 13.5 is now live! The latest issue features flash fiction by Curtis Smith, Christy Strick, and Cezarija Abartis, as well as poetry by Nandini Dhar, Steven D. Schoeder, and Wendy Vardaman.” Quoting Well, Part 3: Dot Dot Dot – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle [...]
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Melville House Books » Bartleby Shirt “You asked for it and here it is. The slogan that made Bartleby famous—and our totes all the rage—now available printed on a black cotton Tee.” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Culture Desk: “Pale Fire,” the Poem: Does It Stand Alone as a Masterpiece? : The New Yorker “Given the ludic vitality of Kinbote’s portions of the book, it is not surprising that Shade’s subtle, meticulously wrought poem should have received short shrift. Most readers tend to think of the poem as the grace that must [...]
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First Person Plural: Winter/Spring 2012 Workshop and Event Guide: First Person Plural Exclusive Fully Engaged: A Profile of Clifford Garstang by Barbara Esstman Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man [UPDATED] “Kurt Vonnegut finally got his first major biography recently, and so far everybody who’s reviewed it has been shocked by one thing: just how bitter Vonnegut was, in his last years. Biographer Charles Shields spent a lot of time with Vonnegut while working on And So It Goes: [...]
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Has book blogging hit the wall? William Morrow’s blogger notice – latimes.com ‘Has book blogging hit the wall? A marketing department email sent to bloggers on Thursday by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, indicates some kind of horizon is in sight. What’s on that horizon? The end of the flow of free books, which [...]
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How Shakespeare got me through unemployment – Salon.com “But here I was, in a roomful of everyday people, reading in their everyday voices, and as the lines flew by and the pages turned, I saw — or, rather, heard — a whole world opening up to me. Shakespeare no longer seemed impenetrable. And I had [...]
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PERPETUAL FOLLY: Guest Blogger: How I Read a Poetry Manuscript Submission, by Tom Lombardo “As poetry series editor for Press 53, I’ve developed a three tier reading style. In the first reading, I’m looking specifically at three keys: Diction, syntax, metaphor. If the submission lacks excitement in those three key areas, then I reject the [...]
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