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I stupidly tried to use WordPress's "upgrade automatically" feature last night and experienced about half an hour of what it must be like to be a 'roid addict with serotonin problems. Anyway, here's hoping she holds together for the weekend until my RL crap passes. Come on, baby, hold ...
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Orpah will leave the building (presumably buying it, and the country it's based in, on the way out) in 2011. I... I... I'm too emotional to comment further right now. Somebody pass me a diamond-studded, monogrammed hankie to wipe my retouched nose on. It's like a long, deadly world war ...
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Frank Belknap Long
The single best explanation I've ever seen about how to have productive conversation with someone who's just made a racist remark. Bril. Liant. (via Lady Ninja)
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I'll resume posting again on Monday, but for now, take this quote from Cormac McCarthy in a WSJ interview and suck on it for a while, you short fiction writers (speaking as someone who just handed his editors 20 new pages of novel, yo... oh, yes, this is happening. It ...
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An acrostic poet, but a poet nonetheless. Stuff like this makes my day cozy.
Did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano, soon after the San Francisco assemblyman made news by telling the governor to "kiss my gay ass"?
Schwarzenegger's ...
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As I said, busy busy busy. Will try to resume normal posting on Monday. Until then, it's roundup city.
Will smartphones trump ereaders in the hardware battle?
Poet Andrew Motion to chair Booker Prize jury
Harlequin finds only possible way to get even shittier writing into print
Ever want ...
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Congratulations to all, both those with the bigger cheques and those nominated who go away with the smaller cheques. In all truth, it really is being nominated at all that's the award. You should see how hard it is to pick those five, much less one. The winners will be ...
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The Kindle is coming to Canada. You too can own a piece of the One True Cross on which the book was hung to bleed out.
Canadian book worms have waited long enough. Amazon.com Inc.'s popular digital book reader is officially available in Canada, the company announced Tuesday.
The hand-held ...
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I've got a crazy week ahead of me, preparing for a big event at my day job, so I'm not sure how much posting will be done. Check back, but don't send me angry emails if nothing's here. Here's a few news items to keep your vampiric desire for media ...
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bookninja.com - 4 days ago
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That’s the problem with loving typography. It’s always a pleasure to discover a formally gorgeous, subtly expressive typeface while walking along a street or ...
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On typographic fetishism as mental illness
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Michael Moorcock to write Doctor Who novel....?? Isn't that like asking Yo Yo Ma to do a mall musak CD?
Winnie-the-Pooh is back in court, but not on burglary and public nudity charges (would somebody get that pervert some pants?)
Plaintiffs in Google case are UK, Oz, and Canuckistan
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Governor General's Literary Awards
This fellow's had enough of corporate bookselling, which puts him just about 15 or 20 years behind everyone else.
When the Borders Group first imported its corporate ambience to the UK in 1998, it seemed the book business had been made anew. Here were stores in which not only could you ...
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Meet the face of your imminent demise, publishing. No, it's not Drew Carey on Slim Fast, it's Canadian sci-fi writer and uber-blogger Cory Doctorow, muthatruckahs. And he's here to bust an affable, common sense cap in your ass. That or he's the anti-Christ. Are we supposed to be mad at ...
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Cory Doctorow
Ongoing at Bookninja is an argument in the comments of the post right below this one about whether publishing, and especially the term "chicklit", are sexist. One of the many streams flowing through this discussion is the idea that men don't really read. Orpah, in all her bookish wisdom, is ...
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After twisting its shapely ankle on a strappy, five-inch heel caught in a sewer grate, Chick-lit has bravely righted itself, adjusted its skirt so only a sliver of panty is visible, wiped away its drunken mascara tears, and screamed, "Fuck you, asshole!" into the night. It's, like, ...
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A Rushdie essay that had been cut from Granta by Alex Clarke right before her departure has been restored by new editor John Freeman. Speculation abounds about whether this was part of the reason for Clarke's departure.
An essay by Salman Rushdie, rejected by former Granta editor Alex Clark for ...
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Newfoundland poet Des Walsh has the distinct, if odd, honour of having had a book of his poems adapted into a major motion picture. He's intereviewed along with the director at the Afterword.
NP: What challenges arose in deciding which parts of the book to adapt?
JNS: We were adapting a book ...
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Between wheezing, mechanically-assisted breaths, Waterstone's has responded to the Guardian's assertion that the company is out to kill publishing. Their argument in a nutshell: want a sausage, doggies? I have a whole chain of 'em right here! Fetch!
Jeffries believes the atmosphere in ...
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What's creeping up the venal structure of your news leg right now on its way to your news brain.
Remember the hot spy Cheney tried to sacrifice but instead he ended up tossing his best friend under the steamroller of blame so he could retain his scaly deathgrip on power? She ...
