October 2010
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another pile of stuff#4
Now You Can Even Google the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yes, you will be able to, once the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google get it all happening. Via ReadWriteWeb.
Note to self: make sure I catch John Marsden talking about the adaptation to film of his justly famed ‘Tomorrow When The War Began’ series of books, here on Radio National.
Via Maud, something about Oscar to read.
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“I do feel like I’ve written good books in my life, and if I quit now those books...”
– Richard Ford speaks to the National about his new book, Canada, out next year sometime.
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whoops i did it again
…I played with the templates for a test blog…we’ll just blame Tumblr for me not being able to find my original template, shall we?
As you were.
Update: FIXED. The template of choice was Der Gute Zeitgeist, by ueberleben. Just for the record.
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“I’ve long been convinced that if you could somehow snap your fingers and...”
– Don Paterson hath a book on the Sonnets. Indeed. This is a bracing article and I think I just might have to buy it after seeing him on Owen Sheers’ lovely poetry show the other night, talking about George Mackay Brown.
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As reported at Ampersand Duck’s blog, this...
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Curious Pages: LANE SMITH on It's a Book →
John Williams of The Second Pass provided the link to this post by Lane Smith about his lovely new children’s book about digital publishing. I found it in a bookshop the other day and enjoyed it enormously. Didn’t realise he was the Stinky Cheese author at first (and yes, I have been to this blog before I think.)
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“In the mid-18th century thousands of poor women, similarly at the end of their...”
– crooked house: Foundlings and Their Identifying Tokens
From The Guardian originally. Thanks Stephany.
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AusRED is on the way - a history of our reading... →
Researchers at Griffith University and the University of Southern Queensland are creating a database ‘combining large scale historical synthesis and intensive qualitative analysis of the act of reading.’ More at the link in the header. From Austlit’s October news.
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The view from Down Under: Booki.sh’s In-Browser... →
Constance Wiebrands (@flexnib) tweeted this link describing an impressive e-publishing development. Booki.sh is a browser based e-reader that brings us all one step closer to breaking down barriers between e-publishing formats.
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a pile of stuff #3
Okay, C didn’t win the Booker. (And we still don’t have it in paperback down here.) There are a heap of other letters still available for book titles, according to Abebooks.com. From Language Log.
Researchers at Griffith University and the University of Southern Queensland are creating a database, AusRED, ‘combining large scale historical synthesis and intensive qualitative...
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'And Other Stories' - Sophie Lewis discusses a... →
Launched earlier this year by translator Stefan Tobler, And Other Stories is a Community Interest Company, which in our case means that we’re a not-for-private-profit publisher. We gather circles of people, virtually and physically, who are also into reading powerful and unusual literature from around the world; we track down books in some of the languages that we can read between us (Spanish,...
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“You often hear it said that someone is like a person in a novel. But Diaghilev...”
– Diaghilev: Lord of the dance - Andrew O’Hagan in The Guardian
O’Hagan introduces the V&A exhibition of Ballets Russes bits and bobs. Oh to be in England…
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Red Lemonade uncorked, announces Nash →
Cursor, Richard Nash’s new company, is publishing Lynne Tillman’s new novel and also putting her backlist back in print.
“While Cursor’s aim is nothing less than the reinvention of the publishing business model,” said Nash, “all publishing begins with the writer, in our case three writers, all women, one an internationally-celebrated novelist, the other two thrilling debuts by ...
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The End of the Story →
Robert Jordan died before he could finish his sprawling, thirteen-book fantasy epic, so his widow hired a thirty-one-year-old fantasy novelist to finish it for him.
Noted. The last instalment is due in 2011, according to this report from The Believer.
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Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare →
oh Lord, am I ever going to do that philosophy course? by the time I get around to it, will they have locked it up, I wonder?
“Being helpful may lose its virtue if you tingle with superiority, or resentment....”
– The School of Life : Catherine Blyth on Being Helpful
Excellent!
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c'est ridicule
richardnash:
They learn nothing: “On basis of 4 pages, Knopf’s Sonny Mehta paid $2.5M for new Kiran Desai” http://is.gd/fE3Ux” /@cteicher @jafurtado
September 2010
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via @r_nash, a post on e-books and publishers from... →
the problem for me is, how to save these things - or stop saving them. Why am I still interested? no longer book blogging, or am I?
“In his classic Appreciations of Japanese Culture, Keene lists the typical...”
– darkly wise, rudely great: Bonsai and Zen - Damon Young.
Now I think this comes close to describing why I prefer folk and country songs to opera. So close it’s not funny.
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the accidentalist: Michael Greenberg in Bookforum,...
I forgave his satisfaction at not being one of us and for asking prurient questions about my prognosis, flaunting his good health. During better times, I had felt the same impulse among the sick.
This will not be online all the time. We must enjoy it while we can - as reported by the Book Bench blog, Michael Greenberg is writing a column for Bookforum, and this is a taste of things to come.
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super french words: effaroucher, rocambolesque →
HEH. Superbe. As in,
Son seul ami, Clarence, est secrètement amoureux d’elle, mais se garde bien de se déclarer pour ne pas l’effaroucher.
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L’histoire de cette célibataire parisienne, avec sa famille décomposée et recomposée, semble au premier abord très ordinaire et un peu rocambolesque.
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reading from the online island
Donna Ward, ‘The Weight Of A Child’: beautiful.
To read: a meaty looking essay on autobiography and psychotherapy by Elizabeth Hanscombe, ‘Straddling Two Worlds.’
To drink: a cup of tea, and to find: the morning paper, and see if my letter got into the Age today.
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magical thinking indeed
I’m only just finding out what I have inherited from the unspoken grief of my mother, who had a child stolen from her as a young woman. A constant vigilance, for one thing – that there would be no more lost children, but also a watchfulness over the happiness of others. I have inherited a magical thinking that convinced me for a long time – it still can – that I am personally responsible...
