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The Great Book Clearout: The Results
The Great Book Clearout: The Results
As many of you know I decided to have a bit of a book cull. Once the decision was made I had to formulate some sort of criteria and then actually start throwing stuff out . The clearout was put on hold for a few weeks when my wife had her Open House day as part of the Windsor Fringe (we opened ...
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Linklog: the age of margarine, clearing shelves, and more
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk — ... Literary criticism in the 21st century: "Before we knew it, the Age of Margarine was upon us – not golden, but bright yellow, and full of suspicious adulterants." • Positive results of a book clearout, plus additional bookshelf porn. • Positive reader reviews for sale in bulk. • I'd be more interested in the original scroll version of On the Road if it looked like this. • The beneficial effects of hiring an agent: "The book, formerly titled Every Day I Know Less and Less: Postcards From the New Times Square, has been sold to ...

Linklog: the age of margarine, clearing shelves, and more
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Literary criticism in the 21st century: "Before we knew it, the Age of Margarine was upon us – not golden, but bright yellow, and full of suspicious adulterants." • Positive results of a book clearout, plus additional bookshelf porn. • Positive reader reviews for sale in bulk. • I'd be more interested in the original scroll version of On the Road if it looked like this. • The beneficial effects of hiring an agent: "The book, formerly titled Every Day I Know Less and Less: Postcards From the New Times Square, has been sold to ...

In the Ether
The Second Pass — ... to a recent piece about “how to write a great novel.” . . . I’m always drawn to stories about organizing books. Or in this case, culling them: Scott Pack goes from 3,000 to 2,000. . . . Andrew Sullivan’s self-published The View from Your Window, a collection of reader-submitted photos, ...

On making space...
Brit Lit Blogs — ... How odd then that I go on a little stroll to visit old friends around the blogosphere and find that over at Me and My Big Mouth, Scott Pack has been doing likewise. ...

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