Hunger is the Best Cook!
We'll need all hands on deck and the cook...
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
-Mother Jones and Double Dragon (Iron Curtain is the best motivator!)
Words can never describe the intimate atmosphere at the Sydney Writers Festival - how can the setting of azure harbour, warf, word loving bunch match anything as powerful as this ... The German and Canadian publishers Double Dragons who came and spoke at the festival loved it. Phillip Jones even took a leaf out of Cold River ;-) Luis Garcia made a great impact with his story ...
The New York Times asked a handful of writers what books they’ve enjoyed most over the last few months, and why. Their choices are idiosyncratic and instructive. From Salon, from the pursuit of a lost Shakespeare manuscript to a chilling tale of missing sisters, these recommendations will add sizzle to your beach book list; and Opus Day: An interview with Berkeley Breathed, Salon's new Sunday cartoonist. The Skim Trade: At New York's BookExpo, the literary event of a lunchtime. In Praise Of The Small Press: There are numerous other small presses out there. Check them out - you might discover a gem of your own. Flitting across the harbour and transforming the dreams
Words among words Roads To Reality
A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no longer rationed It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Iron Curtain Crossers know why and how to let the light of the candles you light up overcome the darkness, it is too easy and too convenient to curse the darkness while paying lip sympathy that something should be done …
It may be an odd thing to do, but whenever I’m in another country, I always go to as many bookstores as I can, even when the language is Greek to me. I love seeing the differences in how books are made and promoted, the variations in cover designs and trim sizes and colors. Although I realize I’m looking through rose-colored glasses, there seems inevitably to be a cheeriness in window displays and a pleasant languor in browsing that, at least on the surface, are lacking at home. In the process of visiting sundry foreign bookstores, some places have become like old friends to drop in on when I’m in town. In Berlin, one particular acquaintance I feel I know intimately.
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