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Something new, something cool: Booktrope
It’s nice, for a change, to report on something new in publishing without opining on its contribution to publishing’s ruination. Say hello to Booktrope, for my money the biggest and best development in the book-publishing business in at least a … Continue reading
America evolves
Evolution takes time, and all that America has needed to evolve toward equality and inclusiveness is time. We’ve needed time to nurture a generation that’s willing to judge people based on who they are, versus what they look like or … Continue reading
Library performance art
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
RIP Sir Christopher Lee (May 27 1922 – June 7 2015)
If only we could all age as gracefully and (no other word for it) as bad-assedly as consummate actor and Commander of the British Empire, Sir Christopher Lee. And if only we could do justice here to his film career. … Continue reading
An author’s self-defense, or social-media suicide?
* The online indie-author milieu lit up this weekend as a one-star Goodreads review turned into viral humiliation for self-published author Dylan Saccoccio. A less charitable observer might say Saccoccio’s imploded reputation is entirely self-inflicted. A more constructive one might … Continue reading
Pseudo-post Sunday
It’s a beautiful day where I live, hope it’s reasonably similar where you live…and rather than wasting spending the next few hours tapping out my biased yet brilliant decon of the culture we all loathe love, I am instead embedding … Continue reading
Ex libris
Libraries are living institutions, and that’s as unerringly true whether they’re public lenders or personal collections. In either case they’re bound to grow, as long as people care enough to nurture them. But they retract, too. Or shed, you might … Continue reading
They burned the Temple down (and that’s a good thing)
A bonfire in Northern Ireland is an event heavy with meaning. In recent times they’ve been as sectarian as most other things in life there: Loyalists tend to hold theirs in July, using them to commemorate the Orange victory and … Continue reading
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Faces of inspiration
The muse presents herself exactly as she wills, and to trying to predict what inspires artists is certain folly. It’s the will o’ the wisp, inspiration is, and difficult though it is to chase and capture, that very elusiveness is … Continue reading
A wider perspective
There’s an argument (a dangerously deluded one, IMHO) that proclaims it arrogant to assume humanity has the potential and ability to degrade or destroy its own home. The earth abides, goes this argument, and although I wish that were true … Continue reading
RIP Leonard Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015)
As Ann Curry tweeted this afternoon, “Spock made being different cool.” There was a time in Leonard Nimoy’s life that he regretted the inseparability of himself and his most famous character. He was to make peace with it, though; so … Continue reading
The awful truth about The Dress
By now you’ve seen the dress, and no doubt have debated the dress. You have weighed in with your opinion—an objective truth, surely, from your point of view—and have questioned the sanity of anyone seeing anything else. You’ve probably even … Continue reading
Mozart in the Jungle – two very different tales
Amazon continues its quest to corner the content market, most recently in the guise of Amazon Studios. Now fully engaged in not just curating, but also producing streaming video for Amazon Prime members, the media giant is serving up a … Continue reading
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Brian Williams’s brain
Both explanations are plausible, that’s the most doleful aspect of the Brian Williams drama currently playing out. In the abstract at least, it’s as equally possible that someone could lie about coming under fire in a war zone, as it is … Continue reading
