Amongst a few things, 2009 for me will be the year of the lists. Becoming familiar with any community of interest requires information, and the best way to “inscribe oneself” into a narrative is first of all through the opinion of others. Over time we can question those bias and change ourselves, but [...]
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It’s all around us this market changing world of ours. Or is it? A couple of hundred years ago our dear forebears of English went ice cold thick banana-whips (to quote Douglas Adams) when Parliament forgot to renew the monopoly of the Stationer’s Company and people were able to print whatever they [...] Yesterday the Guardian reprinted from its archives an original note from 1958 about Pasternak’s refusal to leave the Soviet Union to receive his Nobel Prize. It’s terrific newspapers take the time to sometimes show their historicity (even if a lot of it is pre-conceived). As a student — maybe at any age — it’s really hard to determine the end point of an historical movement to understand what followed. This is a concern because ultimately one wants to know what is going on “now”, and what will be next. An example most young writers have [...] I don’t think Sebastian Faulks was trying to create controversy when he stated he was ambivalent about the Web recently in an interview in the Telegraph, but the response from the Internet Literati didn’t believe him. To be fair, he says he is worried by an increasing popular dependence on attention technology, and [...] A recent error in copyright has had an unfortunate impact on a few of Amazon Kindle’s customers. Without more detail I think it’s safe to say this won’t be the norm, and particularly where the text in question was 1984… well, I expect this wasn’t planned. Sam Jordison in the Guardian [...] I found an audio interview with Nam Le off of Bookninja that I will try and listen to someday. Le was a celebrated newcomer in 2008 with his short story collection, The Boat. I’ve read it and indeed a couple of the stories are noteworthy, particularly the first, the hallmark story “Love and Honor”. [...] Tags: Nam Le |
The other day French radical thought came to Barnes & Noble. Scores of students at Union Square in NY, apparently replete with all the trappings of Continental thought, held an ersatz flash mob to celebrate the translation of an anarchist book. It’s “The Coming Insurrection” or “L’insurrection Qui Vient”. In tandem with his latest book there have been some articles circulating about John LeCarre. This time they’re a little more retrospective and focusing on his history. This should suit us well, as we all wonder anxiously what awaits us in the Googleverse of CCTV and indexed text. Paul Constant in this week’s The Stranger has a wonderful summary of the recent BookExpo America (BEA) he attended. It goes a little like this: This year’s BEA felt less like a convention and more like a funeral: Last fall’s recession triggered perhaps the most dismal year in the history of publishing in America. [...] |
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