Hundreds and Hundreds of Pages
This is gonna be a big, massive, door-stopper of a book… A item on Publishers Marketplace last week reported that “Lawrence Ross’s expose that looks at every aspect of the adult film industry from the African-American perspective while analyzing the sociological, psychological, and physical effects that pornography has on its participants and viewers” recently sold…
continue readingSony Unveils New E-Book Reader
As all card-carrying gadget geeks know, the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now, bringing visions of a techie utopia to everyone who lusts after the latest cellphone, bluetooth gadget, plasma television, or motorized floating rafts. Myself, I freaking hate cellphones and still lug around my old bag phone that I…
continue readingHigh Praise for Debut Novel
Michiko Kakutani, who I sometimes think of as the Mikey (you know that chubby kid from those old cereal commercials who won’t eat anything) of the literary world. It’s tough to get compliments from this critic. But in a rave New York Times review today, Kakutani writes “Question: what do you get if you…
continue readingMining Tragedy
Unfortunately, it seems the situation with the trapped miners in Tallmansville, WV has turned out horribly. When I went to bed last night, there had been one body found in the Sago Mine, but hope remained for the others. This morning, the news is that 12 of the 13 men were found dead. Evidently, at some…
continue readingReading Crisis Con Game, and Oprah
n+1 features an intriguing article on the nature of the supposed reading crisis, the tactics the contemporary authors are using to stall the Grim Reaper, and the influence of Oprah. After listing some marketing tactics used by ambitious writers, The Reading Crisis states that the activity of reading, “flat on its back, encounters these clown-suit…
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