So, I just got word from… someone… somewhere… that they just registered a book at AuthorsBookshop.com for a person that is close to them… as a Christmas present!
I’m not saying who did this, or where they are from, or in what way they are related to the recipient to protect the surprise.
But I just had [...]
Here’s another chapter in the saga of Vox Pop — our attempts to expand our bookstore/cafe/publishing empire. Enjoy! — Andy Laties
Chapter 4
When he released me from his embrace, Shelly Drobny reached into the air, strained upwards with his fingers, grasped something invisible, and shouted, “You’ve got the brass ring!”
The plan was a million dollars to [...]
Here’s something that showed up in my inbox that looks like a fun and important read:
COMING IN DECEMBERSelf-Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive StruggleBy Mickey ZRadicals, feminists, environmentalists. Activists for animal rights, human rights, civil rights. There are plenty of rebels and dissidents putting their asses on the line. Conversely, there’s [...]
Vox Pop, Sander, and Me — Chapter 2
Mid-sentence the photographer across the street entered my awareness. How long had he been standing there? Sunglasses, khaki jacket, muscular, bulky camera, snapping photos of me? Me and Holley, rather, chatting about our big plans.
The Vox Pop lease had been signed. It was September 2004 and [...]
… poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and the raven …
This week’s episode features a poem by Jim Harrison and music by Red Garland. Click below to read and listen.
Report #38
For the entire article, go to Malcolm Gladwell here.
Ben Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of law school, when he decided he wanted to write fiction. The only thing Fountain had ever published was a law-review article. [...]
Being a reprint of an ABA headline from yesterday. Thanks to Fred Bubbers for the heads up.
The Board of Directors of the American Booksellers Association today sent the following letter to the US Department of Justice requesting that it investigate practices by Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, and Target that it believes constitute illegal predatory pricing that is [...]
Jack Kerouac died forty years ago today at the age of 47, in many ways an alien to my generation. But was he a free man? About as free as any of us can be, I suppose. And he could write like an angel. Here he is on the old Steve Allen show, reading from [...]
… poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and raven …
Report #36 is now online, featuring the poem “October” from The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems by Marc Beaudin, [...]
Last night on the Indiebookman radio show, Brad mused about my perspective on eBooks. The answer is that I do not believe printed books are endangered, and I assume there will always be new developments in the distribution of information. I don’t regard eBooks as replacements for physical books, in other words: they will simply [...]
