Archive for March, 2011

What WBN Stands For

It stands for World Book Night– new champion among publishing events. It stands for about a million free books, and for Jamie Byng’s lovechild. … It also stands for a major ideological problem for me. … The basic premise of the night is that individuals register on the World Book Night website to be ‘givers’. On March 5th, 20,000 [ READ MORE ]

Which Enemy Will You Sleep With?

After a decent stint in a large publishing house in London, I find myself washed up on the shores of Australia again, without a job or any real idea of what skills I might possibly have to move me in a direction that approximates something I think is worthwhile. So to avoid actually doing something [ READ MORE ]

Sam Cooney on David Foster Wallace

Humiliating, yes, but, ultimately, rewarding, yeah? To be reduced in this way brings us back to our true, elusive, humility, which we would all do well to revisit as occasionally as our egos can stand it. Sam Cooney on David Foster Wallace on travelling in foreign countries. [ READ MORE ]

Friday’s Revolution

Huh, the thesis of my latent manifesto just coalesced a little more (#holidays), leaving me with fifty-odd years to complete it before it coagulates (#life). [ READ MORE ]

“ACADEMY OF WORDS” By Robert Dunstan

Academy Of Words is a publishing industry event to be held on Sun Feb 27 as part of the Format Festival, itself an award winning arts festival. It’s been put together with a focus on the constantly changing face of publishing and what young people, in particular, can do about it. … The event will consist [ READ MORE ]

INTRO: Academy Notes

I don’t know where to start. Attempting a summary of any festival would require access to the thoughts of all involved, because any festival is the people who make it up. So the only thing I was able to say about it before I left Adelaide for Robe to take some time out was, on Twitter, [ READ MORE ]

Miscellaneous Miscellany #001

Here is the first installment of SIB’s ‘Miscellaneous Miscellany’, a link-blogging series I’m going to experiment with for a while after deciding, again, to have a go at moving away from Facebook. Herein you’ll find links to things I’ve found on the internet, kind of like StumbleUpon but less addictive, more specific to SIB’s general [ READ MORE ]

Paranoid About Facebook

I'm spurning Facebook as much as I can now, and this post explains why, as well as how else I'll share the information I so love, in case you're interested in following that trail, in the blessedly ad hoc fashion we peruse the internet[ READ MORE ]

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