February 2011
January 2011
My curatorial process: when Brandon Stosuy says...
“The library is safe thanks to Egypt’s youth, whether they be the staff of the...”
– Youth in Egypt Protect Libraries - GalleyCat
“Carefully curated events like these are what we like best.”
– Mirror Me - Flavorpill New York
It won't let me answer my own question.
So I’ll just say here that I disagree with a few of you who are saying it isn’t a gender issue. As a female writer, I think my response to dealing with a much more successful partner would be inextricable from my feeling that society constantly tells us male writers deserve more ink. I think my response to dealing with a much more successful partner would be inextricable from the fact...
20 Neil Gaiman Facts →
Harper Collins has taken out a 2.5 million dollar insurance policy on Neil Gaiman’s accent.
If you write 1000 words and Neil Gaiman writes 1000 words, Neil Gaiman has written more than you.
Most agents charge a 15% commission. Neil Gaiman’s agent pays him an extra 15% for the privilege of saying “I’m Neil Gaiman’s agent.”
Neil Gaiman can tweet 175 characters.
Neil Gaiman has never written...
Lady writers: What would you do if a profile of...
“I see myself as belonging to a generation of women who were raised to believe...”
– Envy
“… comparisons to dead writers and to living writers whose reputations were...”
– Envy
Envy →
THIS IS A STORY about two writers. A story, in other words, of envy. I met the man at an artists’ colony, and I liked him from the first story I heard him tell. It was about how he’d once been jilted by a blind date, after which he went right out and bought himself some new clothes. He was working on his third book but had no particular interest in talking shop. He read the paper and...
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“Lollygaggin’ With David Rees: Featuring John Hodgman, Andrea Rosen and Sam Anderson”
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Fun fact: 7 out of 10 of my Twitter followers are unsuccessful male comedians who think I’m this Andrea Rosen.
Well, shit. I only agreed to book this event because I thought this...
“Lollygaggin’ With David Rees: Featuring John Hodgman, Andrea Rosen and Sam...”
– Housing Works Events
Just added! Thursday at 7 at the bookstore. Free! Spread the word!
“I own SavePublishing.com (that I haven’t been able to figure out what to...”
– Ftrain.com
“That’s what I tell my Gutenbourgeois friends, if they’ll listen. I...”
– Ftrain.com
“As a result, people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People...”
– Ftrain.com
“I like her because she seems to lack control in a way, but also doesn’t care...”
– Life is hard. Here is someone.: mary gaitskill.
“At a dance studio in the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn, vegan ballet...”
– The New York Times
I love when things are such satire of themselves we don’t even need to make the joke.
Snowy McNally Jackson - m4w →
I want to say something about the certain slant of snow from the window of an office building or I wanted to mention how your gloved hand caught my attention as you held the door and I paused to brush the snow off my coat. I wanted to follow you around the bookstore but I knew that would seem like I didn’t need a book. The book that I ended up looking at wasn’t what I came in for—it...
“But then came our current age of oversharing, and all heck broke loose. These...”
– My hypothetical panties remain unbunched by this piece in the Times by Neil Glenzinger about memoir, because why bother, but:
That first sentence is a nightmare about sentences.
I hope you have you have a comfortable chair if you plan on browsing (but buying at your local independent bookseller!)...
“I heard there was a Diary of a Wimpy Kid float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving...”
– LOL @ Authors
“Mega congratulations to Amelia Gray on selling her third book, tentatively...”
– Amelia Gray signs to FSG | HTMLGIANT
If I am not mistaken, her last two books were teeny tiny presses and this one is on a mega heavy-hitter publisher. I think this is delightful news for all of us. Readers, writers, publishers big and small, hooray for diverse options and many avenues to...
“Right now somebody is reading Jack Kerouac and deciding to go on the road, or...”
– The Perils of Literary Profiling - NYTimes.com
“For my part, I can say that the presence of Mickey Spillane’s books on my...”
– The Perils of Literary Profiling - NYTimes.com
“In which case I pray that no F.B.I. agent, criminal profiler or (worst of all)...”
– The Perils of Literary Profiling - NYTimes.com
“When I arrive at the bookstore, I need to find my credit card.”
– Comment on Weird thing that made me happy today
Touche, my friend. Touche.
