A Year of Doing What You’re Supposed to Do
I enjoy these books where someone “does something.” Even when they do it for a specified period of time, which occasionally makes it seem more like just a way to get a book deal as opposed to actually exploring something important in their life. I like the work of AJ Jacobs, I enjoyed Pete Jordan’s…
continue readingBest Book Designs of 2008
The Book Design Review selected the best book covers from 2008. Check out the covers and see which ones you liked best. I believe my favorites from this list are Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me and Company of Liars.
continue readingPublish Your Rejection Letters
Literary Rejections on Display posted this request for submissions from Bill Shapiro. Last year, Shapiro published Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See and now he’s working on a book about our favorite thing: rejection letters. As LROD points out, Shapiro’s work in progress will be published by Random House,…
continue readingBozza and Lange Hit #1
I had gotten a tip about this midweek, but I waited for official confirmation before posting anything… Too Fat to Fish entered the bestseller list at number one this past weekend. That’s quite an accomplishment and what a way to kick of a holiday week. Congratulations, Artie and Anthony.
continue readingA Guitar Kind of Week
This week has been more about strings than pages for me. So my focus has been on guitars as opposed to books recently. It started with a visit to Cleveland, Ohio to see an all-star tribute to guitar legend Les Paul. The culimination of a week’s worth of events comprising the American Music Masters series,…
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