1. Wired music-book news: Juliana Hatfield is releasing a memoir, When I Grow Up, in September, and Jonathan Lethem is in a band – I'm Not Jim.
2. Guardian blog: How an independent bookshop can survive
3. 'Compulsory Reading' cartoon by Alison Bechdel at Dykes to watch out for
4. 'For an unoriginal literature' by the Poetic Research Bureau
5. 'The Lady Vanishes' – review of Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances at Bookforum: 'The uncanny reigns supreme here'. It passes the cover and title test, and it sounds interesting as well.
6. Radar: Cruel Intentions. Should Juicy Campus be banned?
7. The New York Review of Books: 'Blood Relations' by Claire Messud
8. You're invited to preview the 2008 Melbourne Writers' Festival program, July 16 @ 12.30
9. Washington Post – 'Turning the Page on the Disposable Book' makes a couple of good points: 'Publishers will be forced to invest in works of quality to maintain their niche. These books will be the one product that only they can deliver better than anyone else. Those same corporate executives who dictate annual returns may begin to proclaim the virtues of research and development, the great engine of growth for business. For publishers, R&D means giving authors the resources to write the best books - works that will last, because the lasting books will, ultimately, be where the money is.' Authors do need time to produce works; it's an endless equation, though, made tricky because publishers need to make money to pay for that R&D phase.
10. Washington Post: Bookslut's Jessa Crispin's reply
11. Get yourself to Bernard Caleo's Miracleman
12. Last but not least: two out of the three Winter Sleepers Salons (the Sophie Cunningham one coming soon) are podcasted here for anyone who couldn't make it to hear and see Steven Carroll and Ramona Koval.
2 comments:
Thanks for all the links to excellent procrastinatory opportunities. Are you really excited about all these things, or are you just excited that it's FRIDAY?
Do you think you're productive on a Friday? I think I'm at my most productive on a Thursday. Is that possible? My least productive: possibly a Tuesday. But ah sheesh, it's so different working for yourself: a Monday might be a Friday if you've worked the weekend. A Thursday could be a Friday, too. And Mondays aren't so bad - no one gives a rat's if I show up late or not at all. You'd love it! Have I mentioned I think you should start a publishing company? Or quit the rat-race and write full time? The only negative* is a feeling that there is always work you should be doing - 11pm Sunday, 7am Saturday - but it's a small price (Plus, what else is there to do? Football, of course. Shopping and manicures, of course...). Plus there's all that stationery you've got that needs using... You've secretly totally set yourself up as a writer...
* okay, there's another negative, but it's nothing a sweet ole' sugardaddy with a coupla swanky cars and an ex-wife with no alimony payments need paying...
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