The organized minds at AbeBooks.com apparently minded their Ps and Qs while compiling “The A to Z of the Shortest Book Titles,” an alphabetic compendium of single letter book titles a la Booker-prize nominee C by Tom McCarthy. “There are numerous examples that stretch from A by Andy Warhol to Z by Vassilis Vassilikos,” writes…
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Oi, newspapers. Was reading the New York Times on the wife’s ipad wherein David Carr offered his advice to an ailing Newsweek about how to improve itself in the digital era. Later, while at a cafe, Carr’s observations were still percolating and I thought it quaint to purchase and read an actual, printed newspaper ?…
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Sebastopol’s National Media 3-Way
Anyone notice the recent rise of Sebastopol, CA, in the national print media? The month of May has seen handful of locals from the west Sonoma County enclave break into national consciousness (at least for those in the nation who are still conscious and can read). Though these west county chaps do not share the…
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From Kindling to Kindle
Will the future of reading affect the future of writing? James Joyce, it is said, became so disgruntled while drafting his first novel that he threw it on the fire. His girlfriend rescued the work-in-progress from the flames, and the subsequent rewrite became A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Such acts of…