Month: April 2009

April 16, 2009

>HTML Giant Secret Santa/Bunny Comes Through

>Three cheers for HTML Giant! Last week, with my tongue firmly in cheek, I complained that I never got got my Secret Santa gift…
April 16, 2009

>American Academy of Arts and Letters

>The American Academy of Arts and Letters this week announced its literature award winners for 2009. Congratulations to Ron Currie and all the other…
April 15, 2009

>Report from the Road

>No, I’m not on the road, but Kevin Wilson is, to promote his book Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and he is…
April 14, 2009

>Garden of Eatin’

>The previous owner of my house had a garden. I used part of that plot the first year I was in the house and…
April 14, 2009

>Update on Amazon Mess

>As noted yesterday, Amazon.com was in hot water for what appeared to be censorship of gay and lesbian-themed titles. Lots of people (me included)…
April 12, 2009

>Amazonian Travesty

>What in the hell were they thinking? In his blog post, Amazon Follies, Mark Probst explains how he learned about Amazon.com’s recent move that…
April 12, 2009

>Recent Acquisitions: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson

>I’ve been looking forward to this book for a long time, even before I knew it was going to be a book. When I…
April 11, 2009

>The New Yorker: "The Color of Shadows" by Colm Toibin

>This is a sneaky little story. Not much is happening, although there are some questions in the back of the reader’s mind, like—where’s the…
April 11, 2009

>Retreat!

>Very interesting article in the NYT about book advances: About that Book Advance, which says, among lots of other things: The numbers can sound…
April 11, 2009

>Tacky?

>Or maybe that’s too nice a word? In the past, I’ve heard criticism of anthology editors who include their own work in the books…