Borderlands are fun as narrative metaphors, but they are less fun to live in.
The sense of home is a feeling, a vibe — in other words, a fiction. A fiction someone else builds for you, or you build for yourself.
To be a music fan is to be on top of things; to be a reader of books is to be perpetually behind.
Any Publicity Is Good Publicity? Yes. Maybe. Probably.
The term “trollgaze” describes Internet things that attract negative attention or, to put more directly, things you watch/read/listen to because you know they are going to be bad. The badness is what you came for.
This Is The Part Where Amazon Doesn’t Jump The Shark
Amazon has released an app called “Price Check” that allows Smart Phone users to compare the prices of books in bookstores to the prices of books on Amazon. Because Amazon sells books at a loss and bookstores need to make a profit to stay in business, Amazon will always win.
In lieu of their regular end-of-the-year Mean Week (which is exactly what you think it is), HTML Giant has been running a Tournament of Bookshit, a literary competition between “book related shits” set against each other in an NCAA-style bracket.
The Internet is a Cabinet of Wonders
I can’t think of anything to write about today, but luckily the Internet is a Cabinet of Wonders so if I can’t write, I don’t have to. Instead, I’ll send you somewhere else.
If you are following Full Stop on Twitter, you already know that when the NYPD cleared Zuccotti Park two nights ago, they confiscated the People’s Library, consisting of approximately 5,000 books, magazines, newspapers and other materials.
Reading Hav forces you to wonder what’s “real” and what’s “fake” while simultaneously realizing that the distinctions between real and fake, true and false, are arbitrary, shifting, and hazy.
Book Cover Review: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Side-stepping all of the complicated issues and problems with marketing a book towards a particular genre, and marketing a book written by a woman, reading Atwood’s reflections on her own covers made me want to gather all of the covers of the last novel I read, 2006’s The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrel.