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Will We Ever Bring Democracy to Book Reviewing?
When the latest fracas over the New York Times Book Review's privileged and privileging coverage of "white guys living in Brooklyn" erupted, I reflexively rolled my eyes and sighed. Oh, great, I...
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Author Camaraderie and Negative Reviews
I've been putting off writing this post for months! Everyone with an opinion has already weighed in, and we're all sick to death of the subject, but I said I would tackle it so here I am. A day late...
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Thursday Midday Links: Steve Jobs Passed Away
I don’t have any beautiful eulogy to give Jobs and it’s not that I don’t believe that he deserves a beautiful eulogy. He does. He transformed our collective lives. But I have neither the connection...
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In Praise of the Personal Review
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of bluster in the YA community over what reviews “should be” and how they should be written and defined and what they should and should not contain. It’s a...
View ArticleThursday News: Cool sentence diagramming art, Barnes & Noble’s new Nook,...
25 Literary Opening Lines Diagrammed on One Giant Poster – Using the Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming model, Pop Chart Lab has created a poster consisting of 25 opening lines from classic works of...
View ArticleMonday News: National Book Award Finalists, Jim Hines on Kathleen Hale, Margo...
Get To Know The Finalists For The 2014 National Book Award – From Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See (another WWII-set novel) to Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven to Jacqueline Woodson’s...
View ArticleFriday News: Reader assault case update, World Fantasy Award, Snowden on...
British Writer Tracks Down Teen Who Gave His Book a Bad Review, Smashes Her With Wine Bottle – You may remember this 2014 case – a teenage reader-reviewer named Paige Rolland gave Richard Brittain’s...
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New York Times & Wall Street Journal Prepare To Slash Entertainment Coverage And Staff As Print Ads Vanish – Despite denials from the paper itself, the New York Times is, according to multiple...
View ArticleReba Belle v. Amazon Update
We have not dropped this. Our petition is up to 644 signatures and we are still planning on sending the printed version to both Amazon and the Washington State AG’s office. We actually received a...
View ArticleMonday Midday Links: Amazon Author Episode 915
First up is the news that Random House wants to claim ebook rights for all books that are under contract. Random House took this stance in the early 2000s against Rosetta Books and sued Rosetta twice....
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