I’ll start this post with a plead for you to read the comments on yesterday’s post about Rick Moody & Electric Literature’s Twitter experiment. The great thing about writing a blog is that smart people come and leave their thoughts for you to read. Highly recommended. Now on to the other, also recommended stuff: Clay [...]
Some of you may remember last year’s epic holiday video (At 8 minutes plus it was, in internet terms, literally epic). This year, we’re trying something different with our holiday video. We’re going to produce an incredible, funny, entertaining and useful video featuring our favorite books and products this year, but we think we can [...]
For the past few days, Vroman’s, as well as others in the book and publishing world, have been co-publishing a new Rick Moody story called “Some Contemporary Characters” via Twitter. Every ten minutes, a new section of the story emerges in a 140 character chunk. The distribution scheme is the brainchild of the story’s publisher, [...]
It’s no secret that I’m a big Tom Drury fan. His novel The End of Vandalism is one of the five best books I’ve read in the last ten years, and his other work is excellent as well. Drury lives in Pasadena now, and this locale has begun to find its way into his more [...]
I’m reading Cory Doctorow’s newest novel Makers right now, and one of the interesting things about the book is that it uses the verbs blog and tweet quite casually. In other words, the novel takes place in a world where those words are perfectly normal and require no special elaboration. Makers is a speculative novel, [...]
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a day we all gather to celebrate the core American values that Sarah Palin is always talking about: football, turkey and napping in the afternoon. I will be preparing a Maple Pecan Pie (with bourbon!) from the most ambitious cookbook I own, the difficult but rewarding Tartine. It should be fun (eating [...]
It’s Monday, and I’m drinking coffee in the afternoon. A lot is happening on the internet, and you need to know about all of it. Here are a few of the choicest items: If you aren’t already, you simply must — must! — visit The Diary of Suri Cruise: “Don’t tell me to button up [...]
Yesterday, Oprah Winfrey confirmed reports that she will be canceling her television program in 2011. This will leave a void in the lives of millions who watch Oprah fawn over celebrities and admonish less-than-truthful memoirists on a daily basis. That stretch, that yawning stretch between four and five pm, what will come of it? How [...]
On The Morning News today, V.L. Hartmann has a piece about Joan Didion’s resonance with a new generation of writers, many of them women: For some of us, mimicking Joan Didion has become the height of literary ambition, and not just her sentences. “Goodbye to All That” is a jumping-off point, California will fall short [...]
You didn’t think a Monday could pass without some good stuff happening on the internet, did you? Today, we have an eclectic mix of the good, the bad and the incredibly strange from around the web. Dig in: Paste Magazine is running a whole bunch of best-of lists for the past decade, including Best Memes, [...]
