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Michael Charney
July 28, 2013 2:20 PM
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Wall of fame of publications of MFA students and alumni of the creative writing program at American University. (MFA grads from American U: Send updates for the Wall of Fame!
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Michael Charney
from visual data
July 27, 2013 11:52 AM
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What, exactly, is genius? In their latest project, Italian visualization wizard Giorgia Lupi and her team at Accurat — who have previously given us a timeline of the future based on famous fiction, a visual history of the Nobel Prize, and a visualization of global brain drain inspired by Mondrian — explore the anatomy of genius, based on Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by literary titan Harold Bloom.
From Shakespeare to Stendhal to Lewis Carroll to Ralph Ellison, the visualization depicts the geographic origin, time period, and field of each “genius,” correlated with visits to the respective Wikipedia page and connection to related historical figures.
Via Lauren Moss
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:51 AM
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5 Small Press Publishers in Long Beach You Need to Know
Long Beach Post
If the cliche, "There is no money in poetry" is true, then it would seem that publishing poetry would be one of the most ridiculous business ventures one could engage in.
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:42 AM
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Weekend picks for book lovers
USA TODAY
Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman's novelized account of their affair is an attempt, in part, to get Minna off the good doctor's couch and into the popular history books (or, at least, the women's fiction shelf).
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:42 AM
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Penguin Goes Out on High Note and more (News Briefs: Week of July 29, 2013
In reporting its last results as an independent publisher, Penguin Group...
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:41 AM
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Read Local: The Booksmith's Buyer Tells All
SF Weekly (blog)
After changing hands in 2007, the Haight Street independent bookstore received a full makeover. ... Exactly! I don't see what's so scandalous about it, really.
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:41 AM
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A group of writers and scholars is suing the New York Public Library over the Central Library Plan, which includes the replacement of the stacks in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building near Bryant Park with a circulating ...
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:39 AM
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According to a new survey from Rasmussen Reports which was conducted this month, 75 percent of Americans still prefer paper books over ebooks. A mere 15% of the 1,000 respondents to the poll indicated that they liked ...
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:39 AM
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PhysicsCentral, a web site run by The American Physical Society (an organization representing 48000 physicists), has created a series of comic books.
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:37 AM
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We are interested in projects where the manuscripts are complete (or nearly complete). Please send a query letter (including a brief synopsis of your book and a bit about yourself) to: Query [at] riddlebrookpublishing [dot] com If we're interested, we will request a proposal and/or a manuscript. Please be patient: it can take several weeks for us to respond. If you prefer to send a complete proposal or manuscript, you may send it via regular mail to:
Riddle Brook Publishing LLC 1 Hardy Road, Suite 215 Bedford NH 03110
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:35 AM
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New York Times
When most people think of Los Angeles, they visualize the Hollywood sign, palm trees, the beach. The conceptual artist Daniel Knorr sees potholes.
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:53 AM
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What's better than sitting down and taking in the pages of a great book??! Oh wait, watching the movie version of that book is totez better! LOLz! Just kidding! Nothing can replace the diving into the original words as the author ...
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:52 AM
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I want indie bookstores to survive. Actually, fuck that. I want indie bookstores to thrive. And I don't think that's impossible. Honestly. Okay, yeah, the Internet has changed everything — it was a lightning strike that set the whole ...
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:45 AM
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James Wood and Adam Gopnik on intimate family memoirs about famous writers.
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:42 AM
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New York Daily News
Supporters of Brooklyn black heritage bookstore rally to keep shop open
New York Daily News
True South Bookstore owner Monroe Brown Jr.
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:42 AM
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William Cronon is Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and past president of the American Historical Association. We hope that this essay...
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:41 AM
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Study finds that smell of chocolate can be good for bookstore business Indianapolis Star According to a new study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, the scent of chocolate can be good for bookstore business and cause customers to browse...
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:40 AM
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Among many revelations, Nash points us to how the invention of copyright law helped to rein in an otherwise unwieldy proliferation of texts; and how it, thus, helped to move control of the literature market into certain hands.
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:39 AM
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IF PRINT media is dying, only a failure of the imagination, or a shortage of will, can be to blame. Or so argues a new exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich....
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:38 AM
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Stanford Report 'Home' is the theme of this year's Three Books program at Stanford Stanford Report For the first time, the reading program for incoming freshmen and transfer students will feature an online site that gives students an opportunity to...
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Michael Charney
July 27, 2013 11:36 AM
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Yesterday Amazon.com quietly began discounting many bestselling hardcover titles between 50% and 65%, levels we've never seen in the history of Amazon or in the bricks-and-mortar price wars of the past. The books are from a range of major publishers and include, for example, Inferno by Dan Brown, which has a list price of $29.95 but is available on Amazon for $11.65, a 61% discount; And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, listed for $28.95, offered at $12.04, a 58% discount; Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, listed at $24.95, available for $9.09, a 64% discount; and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, listed at $17.99, available for $6.55, 64% off. A notable exception is The Cuckoo's Calling by J.K. Rowling, using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, which is discounted 42%. ....
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