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deusx : Amazon.com: Leslie M. Orchard: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle - "Leslie Michael Orchard is a hacker, tinkerer, and creative technologist working in the Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI area. He lives with two spotted Ocicats, two dwarf bunnies, and a very patient and understanding wife. On rare occasions when spare time c
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gleuschk : LRB · Jenny Turner: Move Your Head and the Picture Changes - Helen DeWitt
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gleuschk : if:book: an interview with helen dewitt - a fascinating person
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deusx : Autopope! - Uh-oh - "I don't know, honestly. And for my purposes, I have a real headache if LJ goes titsup.com. I use LJ for private venting/diary/blogging to a restricted audience rather than my main public blog -- that's a business proposition and I can
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deusx : Titles List (Library of Congress Online Catalog) - Session timeout in 4:36 - Hey, look, I'm in the LIbrary of Congress! "Displaying 1 through 3 of 3."
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nelson : Authors Guild on Google - The opinion of the folks who sued Google over books rights, talking about what they won. Including up front cash settlement.
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14 month ago
gleuschk : blurb about Neal Stephenson's next book, Anathem - I keep missing the second 'a' and thinking he's gone all Rand-y on us
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15 month ago
gleuschk : Users of Covers and Cozies, Ready-Made Souls in Platic Bags, Negligible Generalities | MetaFilter - Vladimir Nabokov discusses Lolita with Lionel Trilling on YouTube
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15 month ago
deusx : Whatever » Reader Request Week 2008 #10: Meeting Authors (and Me) - "One aspect of fame — even the rather meager portion of it that I and most authors have — is that more people know you than you know, and they have a relationship with you that you don’t have with them."
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deusx : 'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' - Clive James - "My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles / In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs."
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25 month ago
deusx : Ficlets | Ficlets Blog | Working the LongPen - "where I was signing and where the books would be signed would be separated by 3,000 miles. This all seemed fairly science fictiony to me, so I said sure, I’d give it a try."
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26 month ago
gleuschk : Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal their favorite fonts. - - Slate Magazine - it's important to have a favorite font.
jimray : Writers do it with 12pt Courier - Slate asked a bunch of professional writers to pick their fave font, an alarmingly high number picked Courier
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33 month ago
jkottke : Wired asked some prominent writers to pen their own six word stories - Following the lead of the Six Word Story group on Flickr and Caterina's prompt, Wired asked some prominent writers to pen their own six word stories. "Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ('For sale: baby shoes, never worn.') and is said to have
jimray : Wired collects six word stories from a bunch of scifi writers - Easy. Just touch the match to
Aquarion : Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories - Six word stories by people like Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman and other famous people.
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39 month ago
plasticbag : if:book talks about how we will handle and publish literary correspondence in the age of e-mail - My favourite part of this article is the conversation about how you'd create an annotatable, taggable and explorable resource around Dave Eggers' Inbox. Not sure I'd be enormously keen to have my e-mail on display in the same way of course...
philgyford : If:book: the selected, annotated outbox of dave eggers - When reading reviews of books about someone's letters I've wondered what will be gleaned in the future from someone who only uses email. (via plasticbag)
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41 month ago
gleuschk : gladwell.com - the bloggers' pet columnist now also a blogger
merlinmann : gladwell.com - So far no kitty photos, drunken confessions, or "johari windows." Might take him a while to get a handle on the medium. (Watch this space.)
jimray : Malcolm Gladwell has a blog
Linkorama : gladwell.com - malcom gladwell blogs
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46 month ago
merlinmann : Search and Rescue - New York Times - "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement, or even outright piracy." [via Steven Johnson]
jimray : Tim O'Reilly in the New York Times on the Author's Guild idiotic lawsuit against Google - "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement, or even outright piracy. "
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