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Revaluing the Book: An Interview with Richard Nash

Richard Nash / Internet Archive
Richard Nash, former head of Soft Skull Press, insists that book publishing needs to return to the simple task of connecting readers and writers. He has created a social-networking platform called Cursor, which allows writers to form literary communities and post their manuscripts for members to read and react to. Nash also helms Red Lemonade, Cursor's first imprint, which publishes work selected from its site. Matt Runkle spoke to Nash recently about publishing as manufacturing, the closing of Borders, and the tribalism of literary communities.http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.5/richard_nash_cursor_red_lemonade_book_publishing_business.php

New York City | Literary Guide

"It is impractical to attempt to offer a comprehensive literary tour of New York City. I can, however, provide a comprehensive tour of my own literary New York—which means it is completely self-absorbed and subjective. See? I am a writer."


More: http://www.pw.org/content/new_york_city


My darling poetic friend has fallen in love with a singer who lives in New York, she is visiting him AGAIN right now, so I sent her this link. I am also putting it here for when I visit her there... marriage currently extremely likely.

The book launch letdown

"Meanwhile, we may want to discuss the fact that book launches are always fairly horrible, even setting illness aside. And this isn't just my opinion – I have checked with other writers and creative sorts, including actors – whom you would think were simply gagging for engagement with the wider public – and the feedback has been comfortingly similar. It seems that for many of us, representing our work in the wider world always feels both disappointingly anti-climactic and weird. At a certain level you're aware that, even if you could call yourself an artist at other times, you are currently much more of a pimp. And, given that you're halfway pimping yourself… well, your job description gets rapidly less appetising."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/23/book-launch-letdown-al-kennedy?CMP=twt_fd

No Place Like Home

"At the risk of stating the obvious: isn't it strange, I mean, this thing about being a human being breathing and thinking and sensing and dwelling always, always, in a place?"


http://www.themillions.com/2011/08/no-place-like-home.html

CAN reading fiction make you a better person?

YES.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/the-arts/books/chapter_and_verse_on_why_readers_get_a_benefit_from_their_novel_experiences_1_3701441

Back From the Dead: The State of Book Reviewing

"Five years ago, when Twitter was just another start-up and the iPad was a gleam in Steve Jobs's eye, the state of print book reviews in this country was undergoing a spectacular and noisy collapse. Newspapers that were failing financially killed off their stand-alone print book sections, or folded them into the entertainment, ideas, or culture sections. They fired staff book editors and critics and cut freelance budgets. Hundreds of newspapers shut down altogether. Many magazines stopped covering books, and the literary quarterlies, for decades the champions of poetry and literary fiction published by independent presses, faced funding challenges as well."
Read More: http://www.pw.org/content/back_from_the_dead_the_state_of_book_reviewing_0

Fellow Bright Young Thing Tyler Keevil is on the Not The Booker prize shortlist

Thanks for voting! The shortlist is as follows:


Jude In London by Julian Gough- 46 votes
The Dead Beat by Cody James - 35 votes
King Crow by Michael Stewart - 35 votes
Fireball by Tyler Keevil - 35 votes
Spurious by Lars Iyer - 19 votes
English Slacker by Chris Morton - 17 votes


http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/18/not-the-booker-prize-2011-shortlist

Frequently Bought Together

According to Amazon,Customers buy this book with True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies
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DKD is great, so you should.
Right, I'm off to Green Man Festival for the weekend. See you in the Literature Tent :)

The Unbalancing Act: How literary periodicals flail to correct gender inequity

"If I were a man, and cared to know the world I lived in, I almost think it would make me a shade uneasy — the weight of that long silence of one half of the world." — Elizabeth Robins, 1907

Recently Good Magazine published an article with a simple solution to inequity on conference panels. What if white men refused invitations to panels that don't properly represent the diversity of their industries? The idea was so basic, yet I had never even considered it. Usually when I see five men on a magazine, marketing, tech or publishing panel, I criticize the organizers: "You couldn't find a single woman?" I ask. It never occurred to me to question the participants.
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2011/06/16/the-unbalancing-act/

Is Studio a film magazine fit for women?

"New magazine Studio is the first film publication aimed specifically at women. It's high time, says Pamela Hutchinson - but shame about the focus on beauty and chick flicks..."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2011/aug/10/womens-cinema-magazines-studioBritain's First Women's Film Magazine Scheduled to Launch 12 August 2011
http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=66356