Says Steven Seymour of wife and best-selling, award-winning Russian poet Vera Pavlova (whose English is excellent), “The main difference with translating Vera is that my other clients don’t argue with me.”
Category: publishing
Little Books Looking For The Sweetest Reading Spot
“The wish is that a short book can navigate both print and digital with buoyant grace, where a bigger one might capsize. ‘Somewhere between a long magazine article and a book’ is the sweet spot that many publishers describe.”
Apparently, NPR Listeners Like To Read About Sex (On Mobile Devices)
“While people browsing, say, biographies or science books were happy to do it from their desktops, a disproportionate number of you were looking up the sexy sexy books on mobile. Didn’t want the boss looking over your shoulder, huh?”
Print Is Dead – But Long Live Print
“Well-crafted print publications have sprung up in recent years for that audience, designed to be collected – and displayed on coffee tables – as much as read.”
What’s Worse Than Snark? Smarm (Says Tom Scocca)
One of the Web’s more accomplished snarkmeisters argues that the push by some goody-goodies for more niceness on the Internet – for instance, the decision by BuzzFeed’s new books editor to avoid negative reviews, or, in Scocca’s opinion, almost anything Dave Eggers says – is worse than the problem it’s trying to address.
Smarm? What’s Wrong With Some Niceness? (Says Malcolm Gladwell)
And, regarding Scocca’s attack on Eggers in particular, Gladwell looks at everything Eggers has done and says, “You have to be running pretty low on ammunition to look at someone like that and call him full of shit.”
Will David Sedaris Or Stephen Colbert Finally Win A Grammy This Year?
They’ve each been nominated in the Spoken Word category three times before – and they’re competing against a couple of living legends (whom people under 35 may not even remember).
Pew Poll: Americans LOVE Their Public Libraries
“Some 90% of Americans ages 16 and older said that the closing of their local public library would have an impact on their community, with 63% saying it would have a “major” impact.”
Before You Can Ask If We Care About Poetry, You Have To Say What It Is
How many of us believe poetry is useless? How many of us don’t even care to ask the question, “Is poetry useless?”
Amy Tan On Writing “Microscopically”
“I’ve found that the way to capture the truth of a character – and beyond that, to reflect the truth of how I feel – is to write microscopically. To focus on all the tiny details that, together, make sense of character. Each person’s perspective is absolutely unique; my job is to unearth all the specific events and associations that form an individual consciousness.”