It’s been nearly five years since I posted about Uncle Arthur’s Book of Bedtime Stories. They were a big part of my youth because the books were distributed to pediatrician’s offices, and I spent a lot of time at the pediatrician. That post has garnered 63 comments from others who remember and collect the books. [...]
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10 Bestselling Books with More Than 80 One-Star Reviews – GalleyCat “We checked negative reviews of ten authors at Amazon–follow the links below to the many one-star reviews received by bestselling authors. Twilight topped the list with 669 one-star reviews.” HT: DW Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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A Daily Email for Aspiring Writers Is Truly Inspired – Culture – GOOD ‘According to Figment vice president Katie Robbins, the idea for the daily email was inspired by the Figment community’s demand for more ways to get inspired. Among Figment’s many services are social networking, feedback exchange opportunities, and writing contests, but users were [...]
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Writing is Hard « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog Click for image. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Keep Giving Them You, Until You Is What They Want “This quote comes from Dennis Palumbo, a former screenwriter-turned-psychotherapist, writing about rejection. He says it as a reminder that rejection is often arbitrary and impersonal, so if you take it as a reason to be somebody you’re not you’re making a mistake.” The Business Case [...]
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The Book Bench: Has James Joyce Been Set Free? : The New Yorker “The passage into public domain of Joyce’s major works has been talked up in certain quarters as though it were a bookish version of the destruction of the Death Star, with Stephen Joyce cast as a highbrow Darth Vader suddenly no longer [...]
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Prime Number Magazine First print annual edition is now available. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Wordnik’s Online Dictionary – No Arbiters, Please – NYTimes.com TRADITIONAL print dictionaries have long enlisted lexicographers to scrutinize new words as they pop up, weighing their merits and eventually accepting some of them. Not Wordnik, the vast online dictionary. No modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster ponders each prospective entry there. Instead, automatic programs search [...]
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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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