One of my best friends is an actor. You’ve probably seen her in something, but you probably don’t know it. She’s been prominently featured on Law and Order and a couple of its acronym-oriented spin-offs, Damages, White Collar, Rescue Me, Gossip Girl, Mercy, Kings, and other television programs, and been in in a few television [...]
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June 24th, 2010
Literary agent Colleen Lindsay this morning tweeted Laura Miller’s recent Salon article about how the future of literature will be shaped by e-book and on-demand print self-publishing services. Miller observes that these services promote themselves as a means to circumvent the “elite literary gatekeepers,” and that their customers are really authors, not readers. She [...] May 26th, 2010
I spent the past couple evenings watching some of the many, many episodes of Good Eats on my DVR. One episode in particular (“Tort(illa) Reform“) was especially thought provoking. One of the things that endears me to the show is how Alton Brown presents not only recipes but the science and often the [...] May 20th, 2010
[Credit to David Byrne for the post title]
Way back in November of 2007 I posted about the sordid saga of Ethan Reynolds, formerly of the model blog / community Brat Boy School (since shut down; internet wayback machine link here – caution, it loads slowly). I’m seeing echoes of that experience in the [...] May 18th, 2010
The publishing blogs have been all atwitter this week about famous writers who have faced rejection. There’s Michele Kerns’ list of 30 famous writers who have faced rejection (via Editorial Ass, and Rejectionist, and Dystel & Goderich, and did I miss anyone?) and today Nathan Bransford points out this unattributed list of “50 Iconic Writers [...] |
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