Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
In my youth I idolized Jack Kerouac. Ran across this upcoming edition of his "On the Road" on Amazon. It lists for $1,000. I'm sure it is extremely limited with many great unreleased photos but still. I'm almost curious to learn more. I won't ignore more details about it if ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
I'll now slaughter the multi-authored Guardian.co.uk article "Ten rules for writing fiction" by cutting several of the "rules" down to one or two words which may make more sense after reading the article. Many of the rules could apply to other forms of writing, and possibly, some to life.
Write
Write
Write
Avoid prologues
Excise skippableness
Read ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
A shout to Rob Stretch and his man gift site What to Get Guys. Rob cherry-picks products for you, so when buying for males, go there first -- it saves time and prevents frustration while delighting all involved in the resulting consumption.
He pointed me there to check the Digital Harinezumi Video Camera ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Mail Me Art is a fairly simple concept. Create a piece of art that can be mailed then mail it to:
Mail Me Art
37 Thames Court
Victoria Avenue
West Molesey
Surrey
KT8 1TP
United Kingdom
There are some stipulations, but that's basically it. The project's first round is done and a book of several submissions has been ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
I recently stumbled upon a somewhat novel Guerrilla marketing effort for a audio novella prequel that involves a broadsword giveaway stamped with a unique and exclusive flash fiction story that will be signed in blood by the author.
The sword is the object/subject of J.C. Hutchens's free prequel novella podcast Personal ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Wordnik -- a suped-up and glorified word mecca-nexus -- has a goal:
. . . to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The term "content" -- referring to material that constitutes a publication or document for an audience -- is abhorrent. Applying the word "content" essentially cheapens the writing, music, video or whatever other form of media one is taking in and attempting to gain a life enriching experience from it.
The ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
A picture in honor of a forthcoming book of his, I know nothing about called The Mutineer: Rants, Ravings, and Missives from the Mountaintop 1977-2005 due out February 1.
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Author Tom Moon has assembled a book called 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List. I first heard about this project on NPR's All Songs Considered podcast.
The title pretty much explains the book, but the idea behind it and the title itself seem both hugely ambitious ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Neil Gaiman Reads Chapter One of The Graveyard Book from The Graveyard Book Tour on Vimeo.
Watch Neil Gaiman Read Chapter Two of The Graveyard Book from The Graveyard Book Tour on Vimeo.
Neil Gaiman -- according to Boing Boing and his blog -- is currently on a book tour and reading ...
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