http://www.artsjournal.com/publishing.shtml Copyright 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:48:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "The scientists have mostly gone online with their library needs. Cutting-edge scholars in the humanities are building new disciplines and online environments are are, in effect, libraries themselves; they are diffuse, collaborative, non-hierarchical, always changing."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_bookless_li.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_bookless_li.shtml publishing Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:45:14 -0800 "On his radio show and cable television programs ... Mr. Beck has enthusiastically endorsed dozens of novelists, a majority of them writing in the thriller genre." While he "often selects authors whose plots or characters reflect political stances that mirror his own," that's not always the case.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/glenn_beck_art.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/glenn_beck_art.shtml publishing Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:10:54 -0800 "From Richard Holmes's history of science in the Romantic generation, The Age of Wonder, to Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life, ... Publishers Weekly's all-male line-up has drawn the ire of a group of female writers."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/publishers_week.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/publishers_week.shtml publishing Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:37:08 -0800 "Bring your own drink - no problem - and find a seat. There are some comfortable chairs over there by the fireplace. If you prefer more light, try something closer to the window. Kids might want to check out the play area...."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/going_to_the_li.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/going_to_the_li.shtml publishing Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:17:11 -0800 "This holiday season will be a crucial test of whether e-books can cross over from geeky novelty to mass-market must-have. Major retailers are pushing the format -- and, of course, the gadgets they've developed to display it."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/and_what_if_peo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/and_what_if_peo.shtml publishing Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:28:26 -0800 "They are the heart of the paper, and not only the first thing anybody reads, but also, unlike headlines in real newspapers all over the world, the first things to be written. The staff devotes the first two days of every week to composing headlines, then assigns the articles that will run beneath them."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_secret_behi_3.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_secret_behi_3.shtml publishing Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:58:16 -0800 "There is a strange affiliation between literature and jealousy. Jealousy is wordy; it gorges on language. It is hyperbolic, growing fatter on every expression of itself. This is delicious for any writer who is not an understater of emotion."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_nine_best_n.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_nine_best_n.shtml publishing Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:21:02 -0800 "[B]ook applications for iPhone exceeded the popularity of games apps in the last four months, according [to a new] report. In September, iPhone books (some running on Kindle for iPhone) overtook games for the first time, while one in every five new apps in the App Store in October were books."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/wildly_popular.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/wildly_popular.shtml publishing Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:52:06 -0800 "The library has acquired Proulx's research notes, short stories, screenplays, more than 1,060 pages of holograph diary and thousands of pages of correspondence, the institution said. The [Hilary] Knight acquisition includes sketches for about 60 books, personal contracts, publicity materials, Broadway posters and reviews."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/nypl_gets_paper.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/nypl_gets_paper.shtml publishing Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:07:33 -0800 "A good book is an artifact made with passion, study, or struggle. ... Someone is bound to invent a way of digitizing the paintings of Rembrandt to make possible an image that is better than we could get by gazing at the original. But we still would want to see the paintings. The human touch cannot be digitized."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/physical_books.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/physical_books.shtml publishing Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:39:21 -0800 "NDiaye has written a dozen books, from novels to short story collections and plays, and in 2001 she won the Prix Femina. She was born in 1967 in Pithiviers, south of Paris, to a French mother and a Senegalese father."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/marie_ndiaye_wi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/marie_ndiaye_wi.shtml publishing Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:02:30 -0800 "The latest publishing phenomenon to sweep America, which has just arrived over here, features a new heroine: the young woman who is seriously overweight - and doesn't care."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/new_lit_phenom.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/new_lit_phenom.shtml publishing Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:44:10 -0800 "Since wholesale book prices are traditionally around fifty per cent off the cover price, and these books are now marked down sixty per cent or more, Amazon and Wal-Mart are surely losing money every time they sell one of the discounted titles. The more they sell, the less they make. That doesn't sound like good business."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_rare_logic.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_rare_logic.shtml publishing Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:20:59 -0800 "Once again it has become fashionable to argue that Russian fiction is over, buried under the rubble of the former Soviet Union. Critics have decreed that no classic works of Russian literature have emerged in the past 18 years. That may be true, but green shoots are now pushing through the fallen masonry."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/russian_literat.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/russian_literat.shtml publishing Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:17:48 -0800 "Not only has the colony grown, but quite quietly, it has thrived. An unscientific survey by The Plain Dealer unearthed more than 30 active Northeast Ohio writers with national readerships or contracts with major publishing houses."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/clevelands_writ.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/clevelands_writ.shtml publishing Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:30:28 -0800 "Two Chinese writers' groups claim that Google has scanned Chinese works into an electronic database in violation of international copyright standards. The organizations are urging China's authors to step forward and defend their rights."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/chinese_writers_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/chinese_writers_1.shtml publishing Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:34:57 -0800 So far, e-readers mostly provide "static reproductions of the print version," minus the advantages of hard-copy books that readers have grown accustomed to over the years, such as easily being able to pass a book on to a friend,... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_year_of_the_6.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_year_of_the_6.shtml publishing Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:29:35 -0800 "Why should the fact that a novelist changes the merchandiser of his books be of more headline interest than, say, Martin Amis changing his dentist? Who cares? When the book trade was a cottage industry we did; it's questionable if we do any more."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/change_of_publi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/change_of_publi.shtml publishing Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:02:07 -0800 The opportunity for women's writing to reach a wide audience online is limitless, at least in theory. Of course, the preponderance of bylines in the most august-and the most high-paying-magazines and newspapers are still male. But as those dinosaurs fade into obscurity, the scales will naturally shift in women's favour. Unless, of course, they won't. It's just possible that they won't.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/more_women_writ.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/more_women_writ.shtml publishing Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:43:22 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/owner_threatens.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/owner_threatens.shtml publishing Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:01:09 -0800 The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library "announced this week that Cuba has shared copies of 3,000 letters and documents from the Hemingway archives at the country's Ministry of Culture. The material fills a hole in the library's collection, which purports to have the most comprehensive body of the Nobel Prize-winning author's writings."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/copies_of_hemin.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/copies_of_hemin.shtml publishing Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:21:45 -0800 "Narrative isn't merely a technique for communicating; it's how we make sense of the world. The storytellers know this. They know that the story is the original killer app." So, all threats to its existence notwithstanding, the long-form story is not going to go away.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/why_not_even_tw.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/why_not_even_tw.shtml publishing Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:59:08 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/electric_litera.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/electric_litera.shtml publishing Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:11:50 -0800 "The ABA does its members no favors by painting them as helpless victims, undone because Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target are discounting some popular books. Perhaps the ABA should remind itself that the best neighborhood booksellers inspire affection and allegiance from customers that no online superstore can match."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/whats_wrong_wit_36.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/whats_wrong_wit_36.shtml publishing Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:46:11 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/france_tries_gi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/france_tries_gi.shtml publishing Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:58:57 -0800