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Book trailers
I read so many books that it is hard to keep up with my favorite authors. I like the book trailers for diversion.
Posted to Culturebox by david wayne osedach on November 19, 2009
Re: Turning off live typing
Farhad, Like TomDibble, I am familiar conversing over computer in a time that these highly interactive sessions already existed - on early Bulletin boards. There is a kind of revealingness to it. IRC didn't provide this feature at the time, but more than one multi-user bulletin boards adopted the idea as a kind of private chat feature. ...
Posted to Technology by RichKatz on October 15, 2009
Poseur stuff
Moleskines may once have been the medium of Nobel laureates, but they have capitalized on hype and are not carried by people who don't write in them. Don't write anything vaguely literary, anyway. They are the low-tech equivalent of the absurdly giant Macbook either tricked out with stickers or else laser-etched, sitting wobbly next to the ...
Posted to Brow Beat by adoarns on September 3, 2009
"Golden archness": oooooh.
Stephen Metcalf, are you by any chance looking for a woman to have your baby?
Posted to The Dilettante by sugar_k on June 1, 2009
This is a terrible quote about female writing
I am not sure why this quote comparing long novels by men to short novels by women has been cited twice now, it's a terrible comparison because it's trying to discuss two things (length and gender) that are totally unrelated. Look at Gone with the Wind or The Poisonwood Bible or even Ahab's Wife. These are long WONDERFUL books by women. Further, ...
Posted to XX Factor by Jason461 on February 27, 2009
Vanity Press: Chill
Dear Vanity Press: Chill. The first step in learning to write well, is writing poorly. Writing is just like dancing, ice skating, driving, or swimming. First you do it poorly, then you learn to do it well. Then if you keep working at it, and you have a bit of god-given talent, you learn to do it really, really well. Your husband has achieved ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by joniholderman on December 11, 2008
Query: With Writing So Utterly Vapid, How Does AA Publish?
It's a serious question, really. Every single time I read an Applebaum article/column/essay (I try not to, but, just as with trashy TV, its sometimes beyond me to resist), I come away feeling less informed and sometimes utterly dumbfounded by the non-sequiturs, pointless details, hyperbole and the weird/quirky, personal-bias-based theoretical ...
Posted to Foreigners by AlexT on December 9, 2008
Re: Toni Morrison's reputation...
I'm amazed. Readers professing dislike for writers. Who knew! At any rate, Morrison rates high (highest, in my estimation, but that's an OPINION) not only because she's an excellent writer, essayist, critic, et al, but because of the universality of the themes propounded in her work. While much of her work sifts the African American experience ...
Posted to Culturebox by benjamin7373 on October 7, 2008
It's Good to Know You Do Care Really
Putting aside the credibility problem that afflicts ''Why We Don't Care'' pieces, roughly in proportion to their word count, Kirsch was doing alright here. That is, up until his assertion that the source of injustice at the Swedish Academy is Europe's pent-up resentment at being ''culturally, economically and politically dependent on the United ...
Posted to Culturebox by Nordolf on October 7, 2008
Emerging MLM Threat
Great article! It is inspiring and makes me want to blog (even more) but you might want to let the world now more about the dark side? You glossed over the subject of blogging garbage and the feasting MLMs (multi-level marketing blogs), ''there are plenty of people who make a living posting dubious crap'', but they are growing. These new “helpful” ...
Posted to The Browser by rstanley on October 4, 2008

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