Gotta love the ironies of digital culture. A big fretful debate among publishers is whether the printed word is on the way out. But the first big internet retailer made its money selling books online. Amazon is a great example of what some folk call “convergence culture”— the term is a bit slippery: for some [...]
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Listen to This: Convergence Culture
Posted in Books, Commentary, Publishing, Uncategorized, tagged convergence culture, history, library of congress, Marion Wrenn, Poetry, slave narratives, sociology on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
ALLY OOP THE ALPACA: Post-Print
Posted in Commentary, Pontification, Publishing, tagged Allen Ginsberg, Alpaca, Books, literary magazines, McSweeney's, Me being lazy again and posting something from youtube and linking to something else, Neal Cassady, Poetry, Post-Print, Publishing, Syllabus on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PLUS: INTERNET-AGE WRITING SYLLABUS AND COURSE OVERVIEW. BY ROBERT LANHAM ~@~
ALLY OOP THE ALPACA: Man who always goes to sleep
Posted in Books, Commentary, Publishing, tagged Allen Ginsberg, Alpaca, Bob Dylan, Books, Cemetery, editors, Humor, Jack Kerouac, Mark Twain, Poetry, writing on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ALSO, here’s an interesting look at what it takes to get a manuscript ready for publication, reacting to critics and editing. Pretty funny, too. Whenever I Am About to Publish a Book… by MARK TWAIN ~@~
Why we say yes
Posted in Publishing, tagged editors, literary magazines, Publishing on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We asked our staff: When reading PBQ submissions, what excites you, what makes you say, ‘Yes?’ What have you seen too much of-what elicits a fast ‘no?’”
Answer: The idle finger on the track pad has no loyalty to anything but the sublime.
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TBD: If, These Days, There’s Any Hope For The Paragraph As A Reasonable Approximation Of Thought
Posted in Commentary, Pontification, Publishing, tagged all mixed up, cheese toast, collage, Emerson's great burden of responsibility, J.D. Salinger as a novel unto himself, Sasha Frere-Jones' knowingness, Self-imposed literary exile, the illusion of allusion, Zombies on June 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Who writes that letter? Who writes about writing it twice? Some version of me?
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