True Enough
I wrote about Farhad Manjoo’s True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society for CrunchGear. Click here to read the entire piece. Manjoo’s text is intriguing. He points out how, as people, we have always had a tendency to believe what we want to believe. However, recent technological advances make it easier for us…
continue readingThe Way Agents Read
Or, at least one of them. Jessica at Book Ends has an interesting post on how she reads the different types of material she gets.
continue readingRowling’s 6 mil a week
Forbes ran a list of the ten highest paid authors yesterday. To no surprise, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling came in at number one after collecting an astounding $300 million last year. Now, admittedly, my ciphering is pretty poor. But doesn’t that come out to $5.7 million a week? Geez. Rowling’s take was more than…
continue readingBlame it on the Bookkeeper
Having a hard time accepting that last rejection? Then stop hating the editors and blame it on the bookkeeper. Poets & Writers is reporting that a bookkeeper run amok was responsible for rejecting writers who submitted to Academy Chicago. According to the article, the issue came to light when the editors “noticed that their ‘big…
continue readingHow Can I Get a Gig Like This?
This has nothing to do with books, but I found this article infuriatingly eye catching. Seems Alan Fishman signed up to be the CEO of Washington Mutual three weeks ago, just prior to the bank’s collapse. His pay for that temp job? $19 million. “To be fair, Fishman wasn’t the one that took WaMu down…
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