I have been reading Little Dorrit the last couple of weeks and I am engrossed, even though life has been a little chaotic. I have been working feverishly on my own new novel, cranking out the last few chapters in rough draft. At the same time, my kids are on school vacation and our house [...]
Categories: Writers
Tags: Charles Dickens · Little Dorrit
My friend Doug Cornelius has a nice review of Mission Flats over at his blog. Doug also writes for GeekDad over on Wired, among his various other web platforms. Check him out. And thanks, Doug!
Categories: My Books
Tags: Mission Flats
Matt Kish, whose bio says he is not an artist, is rereading Moby-Dick while creating a drawing for every page. I love this one, for page 109: “I will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a whale.” (View full size here.) Details about the project are here, including [...]
Categories: Books
Tags: Herman Melville · Moby-Dick
Before she begins a novel, Edwidge Danticat creates a collage on a bulletin board in her office, tacking up photos she’s taken on trips to her native Haiti and images she clips from magazines ranging from Essence to National Geographic. Ms. Danticat, who works out of her home in Miami, says she adapted the technique [...]
Categories: Writers · Writing
Tags: Edwidge Danticat · How Writers Write
This week, the battle over Amazon’s bid to corner the market on ebook sales — to establish itself as the iTunes of digital books — seemed to turn a corner. On one side, Amazon announced Steven Covey will abandon S&S to grant ebook rights to Amazon. On the other side, a consensus began to emerge in [...]
Categories: Publishing
Tags: Amazon · ebooks · featured posts
Michael Tamblyn’s presentation at the O’Reilly TOC conference in Frankfurt, October 13, 2009. (Actually this is Tamblyn’s recreation of the talk, which was apparently not recorded.) Tamblyn, of Softcovers, discusses what is missing from the current ebook experience.
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Tags: ebooks · Michael Tamblyn · video
I am reading Dickens’s Little Dorrit at the moment, inspired by the rebroadcast of the wonderful PBS/BBC mini-series. (It is being rebroadcast here in Boston, at least. I don’t know if this is true elsewhere.) At the same time I am spending endless hours, as usual, idling on the web, particularly on blogs, where a [...]
Categories: Blogging · Internet · Writing
Tags: Charles Dickens · featured posts · Little Dorrit
The major publishers are in a difficult position: they are service companies that function like manufacturing companies — 20th century businesses in a 21st century economy. The control of the book business is gradually slipping out of their hands. — William Petrocelli, “No One Warned the Dinosaurs. Will Anyone Warn the Publishers?”
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Tags: ebooks
“I recognized at a pretty early age — certainly I was pre-teens — I noticed that the school day was enough of the day to spend with my friends. I seemed to have a need to … be alone.” I am sure this is a common characteristic of writers, even gregarious ones. Certainly I needed to [...]
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Tags: creativity · interviews · John Irving · video
“I have great suspicion of posterity. I’m quite prepared to be entirely forgotten five years after my death.” Somerset Maugham in a 1958 interview with the CBC. (via) More about Maugham here.
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Tags: interviews · Somerset Maugham · video
