Tuesday Winks
June 13th, 2006 | Published in books, culture, history | 6 Comments
Effective January 1, 2007, the length of the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) will officially change from 10 to 13 digits.
I’m just not ready to say goodbye.
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US publisher goes missing.
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Product Placement Deals Make Leap From Film to Books. Once again, everyone else (in the blogosphere) is talking about this. I’m just pointing it out.
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Charkin on publishers becoming writers.
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Poetry for your iPod. A lucrative venture? I think not.
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Happy anniversary to the Flickr Origami Tessellation Group! Oh, the things you can do with paper.
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Will Shortz is the man who creates the New York Times crossword puzzles and is the author of many Sodoku books. Oh, the things you can do with letters. And numbers. (via Bookslut)
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Maureen Corrigan reviews Updike’s Terrorist.
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Is James Joyce’s grandson suppressing scholarship? Yes.
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And speaking of famous authors and their heirs: Judge gives Steinbeck kin rights to works. (via ArtsJournal)
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Obits:
Gyorgy Somlyo, the Hungarian poet, has passed away.
Kenneth Thomson, Who Made Data Giant From a Newspaper Company, Dies at 82.
Caleb D. Hammond, 90, Who Led Family’s Map-Making Business Into Digital Age, Dies.
June 13th, 2006at 12:26 pm(#)
Hey, thanks for the birthday wishes! This summer is really coming together as a time of artistic explosion in our little world. Lots of events going on, and even an art exposition in Brasilia, Brazil at the end of July- made up of materials from the Flickr Origami Tessellations photo group. We’re all quite excited about it!
June 13th, 2006at 1:11 pm(#)
That is great news! I have neither the time nor the aptitude for any kind of origami, but I love to see what people create. Gorgeous and baffling at the same time.
June 15th, 2006at 12:03 pm(#)
[...] Last week’s announcement that a UK site called iPoetry was going to make poetry mp3’s available to iPod listeners for 50p a poem created a very small media buzz – that is to say, it hardly got a comment from the blogosphere. What little comment did get made was along the lines of this single sentence on the unsalability of poetry. Apparently, the little bit of the world that is paying attention believes that people won’t fork over 50p (about 97 cents) to own a copy of Richard Wilbur reading his own poetry, or slam diva Gayle Danley in performance. Still, iPoetry is counting on the popularity of the spoken word and poetry to make their ‘new’ concept profitable for them, and intend to have over 1000 poems available for download by their October 1 launch. [...]
June 15th, 2006at 3:00 pm(#)
To clarify my position on iPoetry, I think it’s a great idea that simply isn’t lucrative. I’m an avid reader of everything, including poetry, and I regularly attend local poetry readings. However, I know more people who don’t appreciate poetry than do.
But, hey, who said it has to be lucrative?
March 26th, 2007at 6:32 am(#)
[...] Back in June 2006, I linked to an article (which can still be read online) from The New Yorker about this case and the other efforts of James Joyce’s grandson to rigidly control the estate’s published and unpublished materials. I’m glad to see that this particular case has had a somewhat-positive outcome. [...]
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