M.J. Rose is concerned about the world of book publishing. As those who read and write books link up online, blogs become places of true literary discovery Jessica Brilliant Keener: Getting the word out
(Commentariat of Michael Cader @ Publisher Lunch: Buzz for Rose, But No Balls - Today's Boston Globe highlights MJ Rose's blog (though apparently the paper will not print the word "balls" when it doesn't relate to sports, so they leave out the actual name "Buzz, Balls & Hype") as part of "finding effective ways for readers, authors, and books to link up.")
Start in on any sentence, and I'm absolutely sure you'll read to the end of the story, and of the book, and you'll come out of it feeling grateful, deeply stirred, seriously happy. - Alice Munro Roxana Robinson Buzzes on Backstory by Balls and Hype
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Creative city on verge of the boho big league
Creative talent is what puts Sydney on the world map and the city has the potential to attract players in the global market ... In Sydney and especially the Shire every cafe, restaurant, pub is a theater. Each one offers the opportunity to become someone else, at least for a little while. Bohemian dens free us from mundane reality of blogging ;-)
What puts Sydney, and also Melbourne, ahead of cities such as Tokyo or Seoul is their openness, Professor Florida says. Australia has a large immigrant population and also high scores on what he calls the gay and bohemian indices, indicating social tolerance.
"Places that are open to gays, bohemians and immigrants are places that are open to a flow of talent," Professor Florida explains.
• The Flight of the Creative Class [BookNet Canada hopes to launch their BNC Sales Data service in June, bringing point-of-sale collection to the country's book trade for the first time. Publishing is this very delicate balance between art and commerce, and when the numbers rule, I think it gets out of balance. It has to be even On Canada's Launch of Sales Tracking Service ; In the UK, Macmillan is launching a New Writing fiction program. Opinions in the UK trade run the gamut UK Publisher Rolls Out No Advance Program for New Writers ]
• · How to change a daily train-trip into a romantic adventure? ; The stated goal of One Book, One Denver, which is to popularize reading among the general public, is unquestioningly laudable in an age when the printed word seems increasingly irrelevant to many One Book, One Cold River Reader?
• · · Peter Read's stirring speech at the launch of Maggie MacKellar's passionate book Core of My Heart, My Country Halfway up Silverthrone and space – blue space – yawned on either side ; As Lauren knows so WELL this compulsive obsessive behaviour does not apply to me: An obsession with being on time
• · · · One source of the fascination, no doubt, is the fabular, riches-to-rags nature of the philosopher’s career. The child of one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Wittgenstein gave away most of his fortune and spent much of his life in zealously Tolstoyan pursuit of sancta simplicitas. The Literary Wittgenstein ; The consumer/reader, with cash in pocket, looking for a book to read is potential energy; as is the book itself, on the shelf. Kinetic Marketing: Pre Pub Buzz - Aim it at the Readers
• · · · · On Friday the Washington Post ran first with reports that former Army Sergeant Erik Saar's new book, INSIDE THE WIRE: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo, would charge that some interrogations at the facility were faked in order to impress visiting members of Congress. The book maintains, as the Post puts it, a few dozen of the more than 750 men who have been held at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay were terrorists, and that little valuable information has been obtained from them. Plus, Saar also alleges in his book that he witnessed female interrogators use sexual humiliation and taunting in an effort to get detainees to talk The Sergeant's Tale: Detainee Questioning Was Faked, Book Says ; Torture, Cover-Up At Gitmo?
• · · · · · The fascination with Hitler is as intense as ever ... Tim Dunlop clenches his teeth and intellect on the background to the film Downfall about Hitler and his little helpers in the last hours of the WWII of the Fourth Reich From out of the bunker ; Editorial II Australian film writing own future