The Daily Square – The Good’s Gone Edition
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What If A Billion Kids Were Reading And Nobody Noticed?
It is our belief that bookworms are born, not made. You know who we mean. The kid who sneaks in a paragraph when Mom’s back is turned. The child who devises an elaborate under-the-covers flashlight system because when it comes to sleep versus finishing a chapter, well, sleep isn’t all that important. The one who, despite her parents’ vehement arguments to the contrary, believes that reading outside is playing. Rather than looking for inauspicious news, why not build upon the auspicious trends? True bookworms are rare. If you are unfortunate enough to live with one, we’re sorry. All we can
The Great Hollywood Levy Scandal
One of the things lurking on the edges of our memory is the state of foreign levy payments to talent in Hollywood. The LA Weekly brought that memory back, loud and fast. On the surface, this seems like a case of an unpaid $20 million — a mere pittance by Hollywood standards, as we well know due to our ten million dollar underestimation of Spiderman 3’s opening weekend domestic box office gross — but the reality is always far more fascinating than the surface. This is going to get worse before it gets better. We strongly encourage you to read
On Mouth Foot and Disease
Of course literary bloggers argue that they do provide a multiplicity of voices. But some authors distrust those voices. Mr. [Richard] Ford, who has never looked at a literary blog, said he wanted the judgment and filter that he believed a newspaper book editor could provide. “Newspapers, by having institutional backing, have a responsible relationship not only to their publisher but to their readership,†Mr. Ford said, “in a way that some guy sitting in his basement in Terre Haute maybe doesn’t.†Are Book Reviewers Out of Print?