June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Raven Poetry Circle Revisited
sadmen:
In the 1930s, the Raven Poetry Circle toured the West Village, selling their poems and hosting readings while the publishing world collapsed around them.
Every May, they hosted a poetry fair in Washington Square Park, selling poems for pennies. I think its time to do it again.
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March 2011
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What librarians make. (Or Why Should I be More than a Librarian?)
(Inspired by Taylor Mali and his poem What Teachers Make, or Objection Overruled, or If things don’t work out, you can always go to law school www.taylormali.com)
You want to know what I make? You want to know why I am here?
I make kids smile and laugh and think.
And I make them work hard. “Don’t waste my time with anything...
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The Naked Book: #WhyIWrite →
movabletypenyc:
We humans have always been storytellers, passing down our tales in voice and in stone, on parchment and page. Now we do that passing down in hypertext, with tools more widely available than any means of mass communication in the history of the world.
My wonder at the ubiquity of the writing impulse makes me at times desperately curious to know where it comes from. Why do so...
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February 2011
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"Don’t lament so much about how your career is...
“Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don’t know what it is yet.”
#love
krisisisipoo:
- this. this. this.
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January 2011
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“I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as...”
– Obama’s Arizona Speech: Transcript, Video - The Atlantic
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The Naked Book: You Have Been Disconnected →
movabletypenyc:
But I wonder how better we might all be at our work if we worked to rescue the “reader” from those unfortunate, conceptual quotation marks: would we publish differently, and perhaps more successfully, if we were better connected to the individuals we hope will buy what we publish?
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With the seemingly inevitable collapse of Borders, hopefully publishers will take the...
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December 2010
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“I believe that the positive effects of modern technology always prevail. But I...”
– Forecast 2011: The digital backlash begins [Monocle]
Remember: You are not a gadget.