Posts Tagged ‘news’
Joyce Carol Oates Gives Questionable Advice, and Other News
June 6, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
- “If you want to get the news from poems, you’ve come to the right place.” That would be the Boston Review.
- So much for reading being its own reward. This principal eats worms when his students meet reading goals.
- Mandarin: a language uniquely well-suited to punning.
- First-edition book clubs are, apparently, a thing. In the words of one friend, “We live in a sad and awesome time.”
- “As an author with a half century of literary success behind me, I can assure you the only way to make it in this industry is to meet as many publishers as you possibly can and then fuck them.” Joyce Carol Oates, meet The Onion.
Celestial Homework, and Other News
May 22, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
- This is Allen Ginsberg’s reading list for his class “Literary History of the Beats.” (Yes, he is on it.)
- RIP children’s author Bernard Waber, who brought us Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.
- Australia’s Qantas Airlines is introducing a series of novels, Stories for Every Journey, designed to last the duration of each flight. (Well, not every journey; this seems to be specifically aimed at the “Bronze to Platinum One” customers.)
- “‘Let me use your reading material as an impetus for awkward conversation’ is a time-honored tactic of creepers the world over.” A plea to be left in peace. [Editor’s note: That said, being randomly asked, in a Left Bank branch of Paul bakery, if I was reading “a novel of old Paris” remains one of the highlights of my life.]
A Reading Rainbow, and Other News
May 13, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
Celebrity Publishing, and Other News
May 10, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
Under Covers, and Other News
May 9, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
Unpoetic Day Jobs, and Other News
May 2, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
- Day Jobs of the Poets.
- Have you seen James Patterson’s personally-funded “book industry bailout” ads?
- By a hair, print still trumps digital in the UK.
- “How I overcame snobbery to self-publish an e-book.” One man’s story.
- Gillian Flynn: “That’s exactly my goal: to make spouses look askance at each other.”
