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Reading Under the Covers: The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Sunday, June 24, 2007. The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing. What's wrong with this picture? Comedian and author Baratunde Thurston,. Waiting on line for the. BEA Saturday Book and Author Breakfast, bright and early at 7:45 am. S announcement listings for more than a decade.). I pored over the catalog, dog-earing many of the pages to mark potential participants in next year's Virginia Festival of the Book. See the p...
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Reading Under the Covers: What to Do on a Rainy July 4th: Watch a Hummingbird!
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Friday, July 04, 2014. What to Do on a Rainy July 4th: Watch a Hummingbird! After some five (! Hours an adult male attacked, jabbing ferociously until feeding from the opposite port. (Hummingbirds don't share and are examplars of Kissinger's saying about academia: The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small.) The youngster hung upside down for a few minutes, motionless. Further update, 6:40pm:. 1) Toot I...
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Reading Under the Covers: November 2011
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Yahrzeit - Ahead and Behind theTimes. My father died 17 years ago today. November 30 is also Mark Twain's birthday. I imagine Dad would have liked to be linked to Twain, however tenuously. Funny. I just now remembered that I read THE INNOCENTS ABROAD the one time I visited Dad at his home in L.A. PEACE "STRIKE" OFF CAMPUS AT U.C.L.A. Links to this post. Labels: Dear Old Dad. Publicity con...
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Reading Under the Covers: January 2011
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Saturday, January 22, 2011. The Ultimate Writing Prompt. My driveway was plowed early yesterday- apparently after the newspaper was delivered, as I spotted its bright blue plastic wrapper peeking out of a snow bank this morning. I read the "Weekend Arts" section over lunch and hit gold in an article about the Winter Antiques Show, A Smorgasbord of Fine Art, the Strange and the Old. 1920 Buffalo. SEX CULT. Abby went ov...
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Reading Under the Covers: January 2012
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Before "Downton Abbey".There was SNOBS. Photo of Julian Fellowes © Giles Keyte. I still remember the day in late 2004 that an unexpected package arrived from St. Martin's Press. Inside was an advanced reading copy of SNOBS. Is still there. Fans of Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess in "Downton" will enjoy Lady Uckfield in SNOBS (soon to be rereleased with a new cover, per today's NYT. ThatR...
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Reading Under the Covers: December 2012
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Saturday, December 01, 2012. Quote of the Day. More like Quote of the Year, since I haven't posted since January. (Curse you, Facebook and Twitter! Men don't seem to notice unless there's a breast hanging out! But the fact that they look at our faces is rather nice.". Revealed: Women Are the Secret Oglers. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rhinebeck, New York, United States. View my complete profile.
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Reading Under the Covers: What NOT to do at a Book Festival or Writers Conference
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Thursday, March 13, 2014. What NOT to do at a Book Festival or Writers Conference. The spring book festival season is underway. As a public service, here is a list of bad behavior I've observed and/or had to contend with. Wait to contact panelists till two days before the event—or not at all. Let panelists talk for so long that there’s no time for audience Q&A. (This happened with the panel in #3.). Belittle the moder...
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Reading Under the Covers: Before "Downton Abbey"...There was SNOBS
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Before "Downton Abbey".There was SNOBS. Photo of Julian Fellowes © Giles Keyte. I still remember the day in late 2004 that an unexpected package arrived from St. Martin's Press. Inside was an advanced reading copy of SNOBS. Is still there. Fans of Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess in "Downton" will enjoy Lady Uckfield in SNOBS (soon to be rereleased with a new cover, per today's NYT. ThatR...
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Reading Under the Covers: February 2011
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Reading Under the Covers. Commentary on writing, publishing and a bunch of other stuff. Saturday, February 12, 2011. In Cairo with Caravaggio. Above, a group of young men in Tahrir Square, by Moises Saman. For The New York Times. Below, " The Taking of Christ. C 1602) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, at the National Gallery of Ireland. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rhinebeck, New York, United States. Proprietor of Book Promotion 101. View my complete profile. Work, work, work.
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