February 2012
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Where art thou?
VIDA has tallied up the gender disparity of authors covered by major publications and the results aren’t even close. Some of the most well-regarded outlets have lopsided coverage when it comes to book reviews devoted to, and written by, women.
We can do better, can’t we?
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Cat named Pudding rescues owner hours after his... →
The most important article published today? I think so.
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A New Penn Station
Then
Now
“To pass through Grand Central Terminal, one of New York’s exalted public spaces, is an ennobling experience, a gift. To commute via the bowels of Penn Station, just a few blocks away, is a humiliation.”
-Michael Kimmelman, “Restore a Gateway to Dignity,” NYT
Nothing makes me more apoplectic than this shitshow.
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Public Service Announcement: Literary Magazines still exist! And they are “offbeat,” “itty bitty,” and “platform-agnostic.”
Check these out.
(Thanks, NYT!)
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“The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.”
—Fidel Castro, on the US Republican Presidential primaries
[via]
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Off On a Tangent: Announcement(s) →
offonatangent:
I’ve been sitting on this for a while, but now that my signature’s on four copies of a contract it’s time to share the news with the world: I will be editing an anthology of domestic suspense stories, all reprints, for Penguin. The working title is THE DARK SIDE OF DINNER DISHES, LAUNDRY, AND…
Mazel tov!
The perfect pairing.
Amazon, Up in Flames - NYTimes.com →
scribnerbooks:
Another day, another article about how the publishing industry hates Amazon.
The situation is not quite as dire as the article makes it seem. Everyone is trying to sell and promote books, the devil is in the details.
I agree.
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Flavorwire » 10 Great Science Fiction Books for... →
Great idea. Great books.
The Millions' Guide to Litifying Your Tumblr... →
Very, very bookish.
scribnerbooks:
Glad to see we are “bookish” and contain “miscellany.” We love miscellany.
See our previous post if you want to know our feelings on publishing & Tumblr.
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Scribner Books: Publishing, the Internet, and... →
The key to the internet - show don’t sell, as we editors like to say.
(In a slightly altered form.)
scribnerbooks:
“The static web is dying so fast,” said [Josh] Green, who thinks within a year or two social media will dominate the Internet. “Tumblr is way better than all of the other ones,” he said.
Instead of trying to sell his latest book with social media, Green said he uses social...
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“There’s no life
that couldn’t be immortal
if only for a moment.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, “On Death, without Exaggeration”
1923-2012
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Downton Abbey Faceoff
Paper Magazine reminds us that the Downton actors are real people.
O’Brien-in-real-life is crazy, as is BatesCarson-on-a-bike..
(Bates had a better ring to it)
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Manhattan's "Ghost River," Minetta Brook
“The brook, in the seventeenth century, had been a favorite fishing spot for the Lenape and the Dutch: “a clear swift brook abounding in trout.” By the early nineteenth century, it had disappeared from maps, buried beneath the streets, forgotten. Or perhaps not. There were stories floating around about basements of older buildings in the Village with grates in the floor, through which you...
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January 2012
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No More E-books vs. Print Books
Here’s the thing: you don’t have to be a print book person or an e-book person. It’s not an either/or proposition…. We should worry less about how people get their books and — say it with me now! — just be glad that people are reading.
—Jonathan Segura on NPR
Not the first to say it, but it bears repeating.
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Alan Lomax Goes Digital
A NY Times article that made me very excited.
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“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
– Barbara Tuchman, author of The Guns of August, born this day, 1912
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Watchwashingtonpoststyle:
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.
This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)
Yes, yes. Next up? Pynchon? Cormac McCarthy?
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On Public Relations: Hierarchy of Book... →
paulbogaards:
Hierarchy of Book Publishing The Top 100 (circa 2012)
1). Brand-name authors (still)
Stephen King (since 1974)
John Grisham (1989)
Patricia Cornwell (1990)
Jodi Picoult (1992)
Nicholas Sparks (1996)
Jennifer Weiner (2001)
Etc.
2). Self-published authors with proven track…
Brilliant. Epic. Brilliant.
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Publishers And Booksellers See A 'Predatory'... →
Booksellers and publishers are worried that Amazon is going to devour their industry. The giant online retailer seems to have its hands in all aspects of the business, from publishing books to selling them — and that has some in the book world wondering if there is any end to Amazon’s influence.
Publishers have a problem when it comes to discussing Amazon: They may fear its power, but...
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“I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.”
– Henry James, after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut three lines from a 5,000 word article
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A writer you should know: Elizabeth von Arnim
Currently in vogue thanks to a shout out from “Downton Abbey” - where her book was passed along as a sad attempt at flirtation.
Why she’s interesting:
—was married to a Prussian aristocrat she called the “Man of Wrath”
—lived in Pomerania
—later dated H.G. Wells after the death of her husband, then married Bertrand Russell’s elder...
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