Links are the street lights of eternity…
Posted by jaytomio on June 14, 2007
Short and sweet - a bit busy with reviews:
- Jeffery Ford interviewed at ActuSF. Also he has a new feature, it involves a street corner, crack, and pot.
- Chinua Achebe wins the Booker (and 60,000 large - $ = “small”).
- Soft Skull is having a 30% off sale until June 30. I was just telling my fellow FBSers in chat yesterday that these cats publish the first books off my read pile. Lydia Millet people!
- Via Bookslut: Something Awful recasts classic comic covers.
- Language Log on plagarism.
- Catherynne M. Valente announces a couple new projects. Check out other Norilana projects.
- Jeff VanderMeer’s Comicbookslut column.
- The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us. Steve has some of the pertinent links. I’m really digging Elizabeth Bear’s plight.
- Patrick Rothfuss interviewed at Of Blog of the Fallen.
- Yatterings interviews Theodora Goss and and Delhai Sherman regarding Interfictions and more. FBS’er Matt Denault is going to be giving opinion on that and more Goos work in the near future - so be on the look out!
- Crowley essay at Boston Review (via Gwenda Bond).
- Lois McMaster Bujold interviewed at Bookslut.
- Do Excerpts Help Sales? At NY Times.
- From the NY SUN: Internet reviews are mediocre…
Unless I write for them:
“Already there are some web publications — like Contemporary Poetry Review (cprw.com), to which I occasionally contribute — that match anything in print for seriousness of purpose.”
Of course!
- Complete 1991 interview with Jim Shooter regarding VALIANT characters and the VU. Good reading here.
- The film adaptation for Jose Saramago’s Blindness has been cast.
…and last but not least, act like you know:
June 17, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Quote:From the NY SUN: Internet reviews are mediocre…
Unless I write for them:
“Already there are some web publications — like Contemporary Poetry Review (cprw.com), to which I occasionally contribute — that match anything in print for seriousness of purpose.”
Of course!
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Do these people re-read what they write? And have any idea at all how they sound? And they won’t stop. Just as soon as one guy stops blathering about how great he is, another reviewer or librarian steps up–here’s another blathering of the same crap, only he blames the entire internet:
Former American Library Association president Michael Gorman, who just two years ago dismissed blogs as a medium where “the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts,” used the Britannica house blog to disseminate his belief that if we don’t put some brakes on this Internet thing, we may never be able to learn anything from experts ever again. “The task before us is to extend into the digital world the virtues of authenticity, expertise, and scholarly apparatus that have evolved over the 500 years of print,” he writes, lest we fall prey to “an increase in credulity and an associated flight from expertise,” both of which he associates with the rise of Web 2.0 culture. Of course, given that he offers the Biblical inerrancy movement as a symptom of what the Internet hath wrought, the argument may have a few kinks in it, and the fact that he cites Andrew Keen approvingly also sets off a few alarm bells.
It came from http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/web_tech/bigshot_librarian_dont_let_teh_web_make_u_stoopid_60977.asp (sorry I couldn’t figure out the link things–it’s a galleycat article by Ron.