Protecting Whales
Here’s an interesting article about Denver-based author Peter Heller and his work with a community of people who strive to save whales from slaughter.
continue readingSlowhand Quickly Ascends the Bestseller List
Eric Clapton’s Clapton: The Autobiography debuted at #2 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List. It’s an interesting read that I’ll discuss a bit more fully this week. What made my reading experience even more unusual was by immediately following up Slowhand’s book with his former wife Pattie Boyd’s Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison,…
continue readingAkashic Celebrates 10 Years
If you’re in New York City tonight, be sure to swing by the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library (Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza) to help the great Akashic celebrate ten years of publishing fantastic books. The celebration includes readings by Amiri Baraka, Arthur Nersesian, T Cooper, Preston L. Allen, Felicia Luna Lemus, and…
continue readingThe Arkansas Traveler Finally Notices Fratire
The Arkansas Traveler Online Edition website, from the University of Arkansas’s school newspaper, finally notices the trend of fratire. More than 16 months after Warren St. John from The New York Times coined the phrase. The odd thing about the Arkansas article isn’t so much the lateness of their notice. But instead it’s the similarities that…
continue readingThe Chores of Copyeditors
Mark at The Elegant Variation has yet another great post about what happens to a book before it hits the store shelves. This time, he discusses the unbelieveable chores of a copyeditor.
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