July 2011
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"Politicians would do well to read crime fiction" →
Thought-provoking piece on NPR from crime-writer Anne Holt, who says crime fiction is a mirror that reflects what society is afraid of. Scandinavian crime writers have long been warning of the rise of right-wing extremists.
Holt says of Breivik: “This boy is born in the best and richest country in the world. He has had every single chance of being a happy, perfectly-adjusted human being,...
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NYT: "E-Books Accelerate Paperback Publishers’... →
vintageanchor:
“It used to be like clockwork in the book business: first the hardcover edition was released, then, about one year later, the paperback.
But in an industry that has been upended by the growth of e-books, publishers are moving against convention by pushing paperbacks into publication earlier than usual, sometimes less than six months after th
Wow. This is an incredibly boring...
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Tragedy & Social media
Anne Holt, author of “1222,” and Norway’s former justice minister, went on the BBC to question why it took the police so long to respond to the shootings in the youth camp, when the victims were alerting the public to the tragedy on Twitter and Facebook almost instantaneously.
In this age of instant information, the authorities have little room for excuses.
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Jeffrey Eugenides gets socked on the train. →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
Worth reading, just for the quality of NY Post reporting.
We admire any writer who can take a punch—and stand up against idiots.
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“If you serve time for society, democracy, and the other things quite young, and...”
– Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
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“I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that...”
– Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, December 15, 1925
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“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”
“It sounds like a swell life,” I said.
—Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Happy Birthday Ernest Hemingway
Born this day in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois.
Who would have thought this babe would help define American machismo?
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We are experiencing technical difficulties.....
Our computer crashed (yay!) but thanks to Greg from IT we are back up and running.
Hemingway celebration to commence shortly…
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Fair warning
Tomorrow is Hemingway’s birthday (112 years, if you’re counting) and we plan on celebrating by bombing your Tumblr feed with numerous photos, quotes and various tchotkes in celebration of the famous writer.
Consider yourself warned.
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This is not good.
Borders has announced that they are liquidating. (Official PR release and more readable, snarky Gawker update.)
This means the loss of 11,000+ jobs, not to mention a major bookseller and price competitor.
Ugh.
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Getting the words right
rachelmennies:
Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do? Ernest Hemingway: I rewrote the ending of “Farewell to Arms”, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. Interviewer: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that stumped you? Ernest Hemingway: Getting the words right.
Want to read all thirty-nine endings? Stay tuned…
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Rock 'n Roll Dreams
“Somehow, as we grew older, we lost our liberated, irresistible claim on being carefree… It had snuck up on us and hardened into something else.”
Read this. And this. And this.
(Michiko loved it, too.)
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Watchthedailywhat:
Five Second Film of the Day: Patton Oswalt’s leisurely crabwalk meets a predictably violent end in the latest short short from 5-Second Films.
[5sf.]
Genius at work.
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Literary Tales of Real-Life Crimes
Since we’re on a true crime kick today, check out Ron Hansen’s list of top five literary crime stories from the WSJ.
“Few have managed to approach anything like the psychological astuteness or the spellbinding force of Capote’s work.”
Hansen is the author of “A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion” - a fictionalized account of a true-crime tale from the 1920s.
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“Crimes stories are universally interesting. They reveal a side of people that we’d not otherwise talk about. Crime stories show us the part of people’s lives they try to keep hidden.”
—Bill James, in his interview with Chuck Klosterman
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The history of ordinary life & remarkable women
Why makes a story history?
In Dorothy Wickenden’s new book Nothing Daunted, she tells the real-life adventure story of her grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff, who left the safe confines of New York in 1916 to teach school in the wilds of the American West.
As Slate says, “What is alternative about this history is its lens, which is trained on a strain of feminine resilience that...
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“The beauty of the Internet is the decentralization of power. And that includes...”
– Cherish the Book Publishers—You’ll Miss Them When They’re Gone | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten - WSJ.com
I sure know that’s why I got into this business. The pay sucks, but I just derive so much pleasure from keeping true talent down. High five, gatekeepers!
(via rachelfershleiser)
So right! We...
These are blowing through our offices right now, on a quiet summer Friday…
