August 25, 2006
File Under “Magazines To Which I Will Never Subscribe”
Forbes–sexist? Shocking, I know. The piece in question (read it here so as not to jack up Forbes’ traffic ratings–they don’t deserve it) was pulled after major, major outcry and […]
August 25, 2006
Your Flight Will Depart from Concours A
Is the rise of the image in our culture to blame for the decline in reading? Liz Lopatto raises that question in her wonderful entry on Tuesday’s blog, arguing that […]
August 25, 2006
Short Takes
Sometimes you forget the obvious: “Writing by hand can make my thinking go faster,” says Amy Wink at Inside Higher Ed (via fade theory). Ouch. Even Terrorist wasn’t that poorly […]
August 25, 2006
The price of bylines
Publishers Marketplace has had two recent book deals by “authors” who publish other people’s work. Blogger Sasha Cagen is putting out The To-Do List Project, and Bill Shapiro, the Managing […]
August 24, 2006
Short Takes
Claire Messud on her American novel and living with a literary critic (via The Elegant Variation). Do cows moo in dialect? Perhaps they are slurring because they are drunk. Azita […]
August 24, 2006
Unpacking my library: on book-moving and Benjamin
Last night, in the midst of moving books all over my house, I took the opportunity to revisit Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay “Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting.” […]
August 23, 2006
Short Takes
Documentary about Thomas Pynchon lacks raw material (via Conversational Reading). Ray Bradbury turned 86 yesterday. I’ve always been fond of him, as he is the only writer I know of […]
August 22, 2006
Shut Out the Lights on Commercial Publishing
After 25 years in the publishing industry, the last several years as editor in chief and then publisher at Harcourt, Andre Bernard has had enough. He recently resigned, quietly and […]
August 22, 2006
Images Aren’t the Problem
Finn Harver at Conversational Reading is suggesting that images are trumping words. I don’t think this is quite true, although it’s close (and the idea is certainly well-thought out). The […]
August 22, 2006
Short Takes
James Wood on Houellebecq–unfortunately, subscribers of The New Republic only (via Conversational Reading). Breakthrough on AIDS too late for Foucault, sadly. Ladies, what you look like matters when you’re an […]
August 21, 2006
Here We Go
One thing about the Internet: nothing about it is ever standing still. A few weeks ago, we began to tinker with a KR Blog. Not for public distribution mind you. […]
August 21, 2006
Yes, Virginia, Writing Can Be Taught
There is a fine article in The Atlantic entitled “So You Want to Be a Writer,” and it’s not trying to sell anything. It assumes writing can be taught, which […]