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if:book: commentpress 3.1
New and very sweet looking version of CommentPress has been released... I can envision many potential uses for it! Might be a good reason for running wpmu as well...
Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization « Clay Shirky
Shirky on the future of bookstores...
Stop, You're Killing Me!
"...resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. We list over 3,000 authors, with chronological lists of their books (over 34,000 titles), both series (3,400+) and non-series."
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Terrible Poetry Jokes.
You have to be a poetry geek, perhaps, but a few of these made me laugh out loud. The exchange between Whitman and Pound is priceless.
The Agony Column Audio Interview Archive
Audio interviews with scores of writers of all kinds, including many speculative fictioneers and discussions of writing, writers and the writing process.
The Prose Poem: An International Journal
All of "The Prose Poem" vol. 8 is available online in the Providence Digital Commons... wish the rest were!
Beauty, Art, and Darwin — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
Interesting piece discussing _Beauty_ and _The Art Instinct_, both of which take on the fascinating subject of evolutionary aesthetics...
Regretsy - Handmade? It looks like you made it with your feet
Great collection of some of the more unfortunate handicrafts for sale on Etsy...
One Million Monkeys Typing: A Collaborative Writing Project
An odd, but intriguing experiment combining DIY and "Choose a Path" ideas with social writing.
The Smart Set: The Return of the Epigram
Though Twitter may be guilty for promoting (or at least encouraging) a short attention span, forced brevity is not entirely a bad thing. Humans have been perfecting the art of keeping it short since the beginning of literature. I, for one, am starting to see Twitter as a modern day epigram generator.
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Add Sticky NoteThis brings us back to Twitter. Twitter is a natural vehicle for that same, Martialian, epigrammatic mindset. Fragments of experience, half-baked witticisms, clever, if momentary insights, this is the stuff of an interesting tweet. You've got one twist and you better make the best of it.
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Martial would have liked them all. He would also have appreciated the mandatory length-limit on Twitter. It forces everyone to think in two steps instead of three. The change of pace keeps you moving, dancing even, at least bouncing around a little bit. It favors immediacy. Sure, the longer story is important, too. But in the long run we're all dead. Dorothy Parker, a modern heir to Martial if ever there was one, sums it up nicely:
Umberto Eco: The lost art of handwriting
I, too, have an instinctive belief that learning to write by hand has benefits not found in writing by keyboard, but I'm still not convinced by most of the reasoning, including Eco's.
Absurdist Literature Stimulates Our Brains
"Does absurdist literature make you smarter? Giraffe carpet cleaner, it does!"
Learning to love poetry again
Most of the comments are pathetic (and some illustrate perfectly why so many people get turned off of it), but I appreciated reading one person's story of coming to care for poetry again. Who cares if his philosophy aligned... poets and poetry-lovers should appreciate someone else joining the fold.
Book Review - 'Wheeling Motel - Poems,' by Franz Wright - Review - NYTimes.com
Troubled childhood, bad brain chemicals, addiction, recovery and death dominate Wright’s work. You couldn’t fake his obsessions, not over a 30-year career so steadily, idiosyncratically productive. His father, James Wright, though a canonical American poet and, like his son, a Pulitzer Prize winner, would probably be less frequently mentioned in reviews of the son’s books if he weren’t so present, as absence, in the son’s poems. Franz Wright is uningratiating, bumptiously witty, inexhaustibly joyless and routinely surprising.
Wordie joins Wordnik
Wordie is a great site-- flickr for words, inhabited by word lovers. They are joining forces with Wordnik... a development that can't help but be interesting...
flickr Galleries: Unleash your inner curator
New flickr freature! "For whatever you find interesting, fascinating, or mind-blowing on Flickr, galleries are a way to curate up to 18 public photos or videos of your fellow members into one place around a theme, an idea or just because."
The Poet as Sound Man
"He [Kleinzahler] visits the Liberace Museum and writes about Liberace’s “intriguingly repulsive” playing. He writes about airplane music, the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, the making of mix tapes, Tina Turner’s bad old days, the joy of bar jukeboxes, Debussy, John Coltrane, and how he once leaped onstage during a John Lee Hooker set in Juneau, Alaska, only to be thrown right back off onto the floor. It’s a weird, heady stew."
You Didn’t Plagiarize, Your Unconscious Did | Print Article | Newsweek.com
"But could some alleged plagiarists—like Maureen Dowd, Chris Anderson, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and even Viswanathan, who all either deny the charge, or blame their copying on unconscious mistakes—be guilty of psychological sloppiness rather than fraud? Could the real offense be disregard for the mind's subliminal kleptomania? And if it is real, is unconscious copying (or "cryptomnesia" to those who study the phenomenon) preventable?"
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