Save CBGB’s with Neil Gaiman and Kyle Baker

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Benefit to save CBGB’s, September 18th, at Carnegie Hall CB’s 313 Gallery. $10

Neil Gaiman
featuring
Kyle Baker / John Holmstrom / Neil Swaab / Fly

Subjects: events

About Amazon Shorts

Amazon.com has launched a new service selling short stories for about 50 cents a pop.
John Scalzi thinks: (via Boing Boing)
Whatever: Amazon Shorts

My feeling about Amazon Shorts is it’s best suited for writers who already have a significant and self-sustaining fan base. i.e., writers who are rather popular already. In the SF/F genre, I have no […]

EIGHT REASONS WHY CHICK LIT AUTHORS SHOULD BE KICKED UNTIL THEY’RE DEAD*

twinkle twinkle blah blah blah etc.: EIGHT REASONS WHY CHICK LIT AUTHORS SHOULD BE KICKED UNTIL THEY’RE DEAD*
Subjects: funny, fiction

Who Moved My Ability to Reason? - New York Times

Who Moved My Ability to Reason? - New York Times
Datamine.

Subjects: funny, criticism

Evolutionary Psychology is bunk?

Cave Thinkers - How evolutionary psychology gets evolution wrong. By Amanda Schaffer
Subjects: science

You’re clogs are killing me

Review of Maria Housden’s Unravelled from Atlantic monthly:
Powell’s Books - Review-a-Day - Unraveled by Maria Housden, reviewed by The Atlantic Monthly
Via blog of a bookslut

But here’s the next turn: although old Maria Martell feels that spurning domestic wifehood is necessary if she is to pursue her dreams, her fate is not exactly to be single […]

Amazon enables nutsy crackpots — um, I mean small presses

News-Record.com - Greensboro, North Carolina: Business: Amazon opens doors to small publishers

One by one, the big houses in New York looked at “Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles,” but eventually said no, suggesting his theory that signals outside cells control genes was too radical for mainstream readers.
“I wasted a whole […]

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Oh Christ!

“Boondocks” Comics strip protested for using the word “Christ”
newsobserver.com | Columns

At the center of the flap is the “Boondocks” comic strip, no stranger to controversy. On July 13, The N&O published a panel that lampooned Oprah Winfrey’s recent fit over a Paris boutique that barred her from shopping. Aaron McGruder’s cartoon had a drawing of […]

The “Quills”?

Entertainment News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Gerry Byrne, the former publisher of Variety magazine who designed the Quills program, said nominees had been chosen by a panel of around 6,000 booksellers and librarians as part of a strategy of rewarding books that readers really want to read.
“Most of the other awards, quite honestly, they’re more inside the […]