This Monday I'll be at the Pindeldyboz party, celebrating the discontinuation of the print version of the literary journal, and it's continuation online-only. It was a tough call though; also happening Monday night is this Comic Book Legal Defense Party, with comics luminaries including Paul Pope and Kyle Baker and for some reason Moby.
The Ring Cycle summed up in a short, succinct comic book. Because I don't necessarily want to watch a billion hours of opera.
Alan Moore and Todd Klein (whose personal home page has some great stuff about lettering, design and logos) have collaborated on a strange alphabet, where Moore talks about each letter in turn in a historical, mythological and magical context.
The Japanese apparently like to write on mobile phones with so-called "mobile phone novels", which have become best-sellers.
So, the Science Fiction Writer's Association is run by dimwits. I'm kind of unsure why anyone would join an organization like that in this day and age. The SFWA today strikes me as an anachronism.
Then again, the term "Science Fiction" in this day and age strikes me as an anachronism.
Is Dzanc Books the future of publishing?
Maybe nonprofits should just give away their books?
Here's the recent NPR episode about books and publishing. Haven't listened to it yet. No one tell me how it ends.
Books used to have ads in them. Believe it or not.
Is the NBCC blog too "left wing"? If by "left wing" you mean "anti-Israel", and I don't automatically associate the one with the other myself.
Speaking of the NBCC blog, John Sheed sounds like a great critic. The author of the post seems to talk about him in an annoying, hyperbolic way (the opening sentence: "THERE ARE ONLY TWO KINDS OF CRITICS I know of: those who don’t admit that they’ve stolen from Wilfrid Sheed and those who do"). I'd never heard of John Sheed before, and somehow I don't think I'm the only one. But still, he sounds pretty cool.