Link Wray Dies at 76
Guitar great Link Wray passed away at the age of 76. CNN provided a nice recap of his life and career. The article also included some great quotes about his influence on other guitar players. “He is the king; if it hadn’t been for Link Wray and Rumble, I would have never picked up a…
continue readingSync Magazine Closes
It’s an unfortunate reality of the journalism and publishing business that magazines don’t succeed. And that sometimes they are given up for dead by the media conglomerates that own them. And so goes the fate of Sync. About twenty of the magazine’s employee’s will be laid off or transferred to other areas of the Ziff…
continue readingAhhh, the Free Rein of the Successful
Joe Queenan is one of my favorite writers and his New York Times book review of Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies by Greg Crister makes me realize how nice it must be to have free rein from editors. As aspiring authors, we often aren’t given room to run,…
continue readingStrauss Cover Story
Bestselling author Neil Strauss, who we recently interviewed, has the cover story for the new issue of Rolling Stone. Strauss travelled to London to interview Madonna and the piece, How Madonna Got Her Groove Back, describes her recovery from an equestrian accident, her work on the new albumn, and the various “Madonna moments” that people…
continue readingCall for Geeky Inclined Writers
Slushpile techie patron saint John is also an editor at computer publisher Apress and he’s “looking for a few good writers. I edit a line “after-hours” books – fun with Lego, gadgetry, etc. and I’m looking for folks who might get a kick out of writing books on the things they love rather then high-tech…
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