Political art need not always be self-satisfied, simple-minded, and uncreative in its view of humanity. More’s the pity it so often is When Theater Becomes Propaganda The critically acclaimed chansonnier wonders what has happened to her art Why are pop singers so samey and sexless?
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Seven keys to job security
Strategies to give your company -- and yourself -- an edge
Wondering how to prevent your job from being downsized, marginalized, or outsourced? There’s no magic formula, but these strategies will help make you more valuable. To put it in glossy-magazine terms, “Old and Busted” is routine work and technology that is not critical to business strategy. “The New Hotness” is the ability to manage a coherent set of business processes and services that contribute materially to the company’s efficiency or competitive edge.
• Seek out complexity Be a person of ideas [Buy a Friend a Book Week ; The Joy of Reading ]
• · Yet more on this litblogging thing Everybody Loses In The End ; Been thinking (easy now) about blogs, blogging, and bloggers. More specifically, writers who blog. All bloggers are writers by definition, but there are a few who are also "authors of note" The Collected Bloggings ; How can I live the contemplative life?; Confessions of a cut & paste artist
• · · Blogs Emerge as New Book Marketing Tool ; Publishers must learn to whisper on the web Can bloggers can really make or break books ; Manufactures fall out with their distributors on a regular basis. Arguments about the reliability of delivery and the quality of goods supplied are the stuff of everyday irritation. And behind the irritation is the fear that too much of the profit margin left to be divvied up goes to the other side. The book trade is no different Publishers must not serve Muse only
• · · · Little stories that affirm our flaws can impart a sense of optimism Smog, A River ain't Too Much to Love ; New challenges for libraries outlined ; David and Shayna Englin are all too familiar with the power of bloggers Politicians Deal With Newcomer, The Blog ; Pinch This Column Steal This Book
• · · · · Sarah Weinman
The Fourth of July Weekend Update ; Carol Fitzgerald Book Reporter
• · · · · · Dear Blog: Today I Worked on My Book ; M.J. Rose's Backstory
