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Always trust your iPod. Ours has been heavy on the Big Star all weekend (“Radio City” if you must know). As we live life in random, we figured it was a sign. Alex Chilton is alive and well, though no longer in Memphis: Chilton, who hadn’t been heard from since shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck, […]

Pardon us if we muddle our history a bit (we’ve barely made a dent in our coffee), but one of the hallmarks of the Dark Ages was that a small elite determined what information should be possessed by the masses and then dispersed said information with no regard to human ability to think and analyze. […]

After spending the week hiding from us (someone knew we were in a whiny mood), Jill surfaces to shares the fruits of her early morning work. Agent Nadia Cornier is leaving Creative Media Agency to form Firebrand Literary. Firebrand will represent approximately 70/fiction, 30/nf (popculture and narrative). In fiction, I’m going to focus a large […]

Booksquare has not been in a good mood this week (ask our neighbors, though, in our defense, if you weren’t shouting, you weren’t paying attention), and when we’re unhappy, you’re unhappy. So why not spend some time dissecting mail we received this week? We thought you’d feel that way. Episode One — Meet The Clueless […]

As was inevitable, we have reached the nexus of book and podcast (and we don’t mean LitPods). Of course the podcast technology is ideal for delivering audio books — it’s doing just great with other type of audio delivery (the video seems a bit stalled, but we’re sure that’s just a blip on the technology […]

Before we begin, we must say something of rather major importance: ouch. Jason Pinter is 25. Is that even legal drinking age? Driving age? Shouldn’t he be off backpacking through mountains or finding himself or something? Or has that golden age passed? We feel so out of touch sometimes. That being said, he knows what […]

We see that many bloggers and others are urging donations of time, money, and goods to various relief organizations. And we strongly encourage those who can give to do so. But there’s another great need in this nation — not just the Gulf Coast region — and that is for blood. Not only does the […]