January 2011
9 posts
“[Your brother] said you might be able to tell me about opportunities in the...”
– Inferno (A Poet’s Novel)
by Eileen Myles
2011 Reading Goal
I’ve decided that I’m going to make an effort to read 12 books from presses or imprints that I’ve never read before. Or at least that I haven’t read since I started keeping track a few years ago on Goodreads. I’m hoping that this will force me to explore smaller or newer presses and perhaps even genres that I haven’t tried before. I’m open to suggestions,...
“The cancer process is not unlike the creative process. Ideas emerge slowly,...”
– REFUGE
by Terry Tempest Williams
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From Faulkner's Light in August
One of my favorite dense paragraphs of years passing, from Chapter 10:
“He stepped from the dark porch, into the moonlight, and with his bloody head and his empty stomach hot, savage, and courageous with whiskey, he entered the street which was to run for fifteen years.
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand...
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Why I DON'T Want an Espresso Book Machine
I’m just gonna come out and say it: I dislike print-on-demand (POD) technology.
Yeah, I’ve heard about why people love it. They think it’s the next big thing in paper books, think it will save bookstores, think it will save small presses, think it’s all that and a bag of chips. No overstock! No waste! No warehousing! No shipping! Backlist in print forever! Any book you...