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The Poetry of Hops
As a young person working in the poetry industry, I’m always surprised at how, well, old the art tends to skew. While it’s true the form does demand some experience from its composers, and having a lifetime to write about no doubt helps when putting pen to paper, even audience members and enthusiasts tend to [...]
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Publishing Movie Myths Debunked!
In the last decade or so, the film industry has given us several movie gems set in or about the publishing industry. Not surprisingly, they range from the laughably far fetched (Lindsay Lohan’s Labor Pains) to the pretty spot on (Suburban Girl and The Last Days of Disco). Even less surprisingly, the number of conversations about [...]
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The Highbrow Trickle-Down Theory
There’s this beutifully delivered monologue in the 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada, given by Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly. Horrified by her assistant’s attitude (as exuded by Anne Hathaway) that she is somehow above the vanities and self indulgences of fashion, Priestly explains to her that while she may not give a shit about couture, the [...]
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What’s in a Book Trailer?
Recently I took a writing class with a debut novelist whose first book is scheduled to publish next month. Half of the fun of the class was to hear the little bits of what the process leading up to the book’s publication entailed. (By chance, most of the class worked in publishing, but as wannabe [...]
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And, Action!
2010 was a good year for literary moviegoers. There were the much talked about adaptations of Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love (has there ever been a movie trailer to get more play?), and Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island. While the delightfully cheesy teen flick Easy A was more of a nod [...]
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In 2011 Our Books Shall Resolve To . . .
Have you broken your New Year’s resolution yet? Me too. Wanna focus on someone else’s instead? Yep, I’m with you again. So, I present to you, the New Year’s resolutions I would make for the book industry for the upcoming year, in the form of tropes, themes, and trends I think we’ve exhausted in the [...]
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Women, and Whiskey, and Guns, Oh My!: Barry Hannah’s Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories
You don’t run into the brand of man found in Barry Hannah’s Long, Last, Happy (Grove Press, $27.50) much these days: tough to a fault, nostalgic for the times that made them so, often down on their luck and longing for the women who only plagued them when present, soaked in moonshine, whiskey, and cheap beer [...]
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Long Live Fridays at 5!
About three years ago, on my way to the bathroom in our offices late on a grey, dismal Friday afternoon, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a very welcome sight: my good friend Katie Freeman with an open bottle of red wine and a half finished glass in her hand as she busily and [...]
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How To End a Life: Walter Mosley’s The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Earlier this fall, The New Yorker ran a beautiful, moving essay by Atul Gawande, an oncologist, about the extent to which our country and culture often prioritize the length of a life over the quality of that life. Unwilling to accept or even believe the death sentences that the prognoses terminal cancer patients receive often are—and [...]
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The Most Succinct Best-Of List
Ah, it’s that time again, when the “best books of the year” list becomes as much of a fixture as holiday shoppers and Thanksgiving Day floats. While there are a lot of fantastic, comprehensive lists out there, I thought it might be interesting to see what the industry insiders had to say. I approached some [...]
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