Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday February 28th 2006, 1:42 pm
Independent Online Edition > Features
Publishing is a small world. Gossip spreads faster than meningitis in a youth camp. Talk to any industry insider and they will be able to rattle off a list of authors infamous for everything from grabbing women’s breasts to hissy fits designed to intimidate the poor saps promoting them. Over the […]
Tuesday February 28th 2006, 1:21 pm
Bookslut | Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg currently leads the trifecta of female short story writers composed of herself, Alice Munro, and Lorrie Moore. These three authors are the most lauded, the most commented on, and the bestsellers of a genre that rarely creates blockbuster hits. There are other strong female short […]
Monday February 27th 2006, 7:10 am
Just saw an early screening of V for Vendetta.
There are some things they changed from the book, made more sentimental, a little less pro-anarchy. However, it is still a paranoid, pro-terrorism, pro-violence, anti-fascism work that resonates with modern times more than ever. It is also a terrifically good movie.
They finally made a good movie from […]
Monday February 20th 2006, 2:10 pm
Grace Reading Series
Subjects: literature, events
Thursday February 16th 2006, 4:12 pm
World Hum | Truth in Oxiana
Subjects: literature, memoirs
Monday February 13th 2006, 2:11 am
‘Back Stage’ Mag Trumpets The Book Standard’s New Book-Marketing Medium—Book Videos
Subjects: marketing, publishing
Saturday February 11th 2006, 4:47 pm
The Biggest of 2005: The 200 Bestselling Books of the Year
Subjects: publishing
Monday February 06th 2006, 3:47 pm
According to Six Degrees of Wikipedia, there are 2 degrees seperating George W. Bush from totalitarianism
Subjects: humor, politics, bush
Sunday February 05th 2006, 2:33 pm
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Sun Ra and The Blues Project Do Batman and Robin (MP3s)
In 1966, a toy company in Newark, New Jersey released a children’s record called Batman and Robin to cash in on the popular Adam West TV series of the same name. The music on the LP was credited to “The […]
Friday February 03rd 2006, 4:23 pm
reprint of william boyd’s “brief encounters’’ article | Donavan’s News | donavanhall.net
Consequently, I decided it might be worth trying to categorise the short story in a bit more detail, to try to classify its multifarious forms. Looking at collections by other writers, I gradually came to the conclusion that there are seven types of short […]
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