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Trade Off

Can Publishers Set the Terms of Trade in the eBook Market[ READ MORE ]

Nor’eas’si’e II, by SIB

The graffers are pyros roun here: … … And their brick ovens are DIY: … [ READ MORE ]

Come Fly With Me

Last night I came home to an empty garage and a light on in my kitchen instead of outside my front door, and my small, serviceable flat was swarmed with flies. They must have got in through one of my less-than-serviceable windows and flocked to the light. Do flies do that? Anyway, they’re still here and [ READ MORE ]

Academy Program

Format’s Academy of Words is about six weeks away, and we’ve started meeting to discuss things like who can drive a manual and how many bean bags we will need. I submitted the program late, but they were cool about it: Sam Rodgers is a machine. I feel I have joined with a like-minded crew of [ READ MORE ]

Nor’eas’si’e, by SIB

The graffiti is bomb roun here: … … And the graffers wear sick helmets: … [ READ MORE ]

Failing at Understanding New Words, or Word Wankery

I woke up yesterday to this Word of the Day on my phone: ‘felicitate’. I really hoped it would mean ‘to facilitate beauty’, because my understanding was that ‘felicity’ basically meant ‘beauty’, which is incorrect, unless you agree that the state of ‘being happy, esp. in a high degree’ is the same as the state [ READ MORE ]

On Assaulting Your Friends in Dreams

I just woke up from a terrible dream, into a wakingness I resented because it was still 4 am and I knew I wouldn’t be able to get back to sleep – I was suddenly too aware, not groggy like I’d just woken up, and immediately my mind started racing, and I felt compelled, as [ READ MORE ]

In-flight Reading

… Maybe I’m naive, but I was surprised that T C Boyle’s story in this week’s Harper’s was boring. I’ve heard good things about T C Boyle, and about Harper’s. Combine that with a story titled ‘What Separates Us From The Animals’ and I thought I was in for a sure thing. The reason I treat myself to a foreign [ READ MORE ]

Join the Academy

I had another meeting with the Format crew last night and got all excited about programming the Academy. I’m still looking for panelists and performers to get involved, so here’s the submission form, and there is a little more information at this Facebook event. (I know I wrote about pulling away from Facebook, but I’ve [ READ MORE ]

Optimism is Compulsory

This article on Dave Eggers’ optimism about youth literacy and print books (via @Mean_land) made me think of the title of his unfinished Salon.com serial, The Unforbidden is Compulsory, or, Optimism: for Eggers, it would seem, optimism about print books is compulsory, and should not be forbidden. Elsewhere (almost everywhere else), it seems the trend is [ READ MORE ]

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