The Daily Square – Underwater Moonlight Edition
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How To Manipulate Amazon, The Expensive Way
We are not going to suggest that we have friends who are, hmm, downright weird when it comes to Amazon rankings. Oh no. We will come out and say it: we have friends who, if they were engaged in some sort of freakish browser testing, would be assigned to the “try to break the reload button” team. A hundred times an hour with no failure? That button’s good to go. there are always those who try to take this pure obsession, this nearly-harmless fetish, and turn it into something sordid You cannot tell a friend that she is a freak
The Daily Square – My Favorite Things Edition (John Coltrane Version)
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Number 147 In A Series Of Feminist Rants
Nothing boils our blood faster than the suggestion that today’s women authors lack imagination. Okay, maybe the suggestion that women writers simply cannot write as well as men authors, but we’ve ranted enough on that topic for this decade. Thus we’ll take the former topic for $500. Presence in the classroom is not necessarily an indicator literary brilliance. Novelist Muriel Gray has leveled this accusation at this year’s Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction finalists. They are, to quote, “…too narrowly on their own lives and personal issues.” For those who don’t enjoy the task of reading between the lines, this
On Time, Space, and Novels
The understanding of the novelist is temporal, rather than spatial or pictural. Its medium is a rendered sense of time – time experienced as an arena of struggle or conflict or choice. All stories are about battles, struggles of one kind or another, that terminate in victory and in defeat. Everything moves toward the end, when the outcome will be known. Pay attention to the world – A final essay from Susan Sontag
Are Newspapers The Best Place To Learn About Books?
There has been much talk these past weeks about the decline of the newspaper book coverage. The reason, as we’ve been noting for quite some time, is that the advertising dollars simply do not support the the same kind of coverage that motion picture dollars support. You’ll also, if you take the time, notice that music coverage in most newspapers isn’t quite as robust as you’d imagine. Why would today’s reader turn to his or her local paper to discover new books? The reason, naturally, is that motion picture studios use co-op dollars to partner with local theaters, creating advertising
The Daily Square – Please Come To Boston Edition
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