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Thursday, 20 February 2014

Media And Publishing Break Into A Gallop In 2014

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I kind of dropped the ball on the blog during the Chinese New Year celebrations, but I'm hoping to get back in gear soon; this is suppos...
Monday, 17 February 2014

News: Silverfish Turns 15, And Literary Hipsterdom

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Q&A with Alex Myers , author of Revolutionary , the story of cross-dressing US revolutionary Deborah Sampson. "When you work 12 h...
Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Hatchets - Not Just For Firewood

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The nominees for Hatchet Job of the Year 2013 are in . Not everyone is happy, though. Here's a much-quoted excerpt of Mark O'Conne...
Monday, 27 January 2014

News: CSI: Metafilter, U-Turn On Mein Kampf U-Turn, And Coffee

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So this book got published: Stronger than an ice-shaken triple-shot espresso I'm pitching this because I like how it's blurbed....
Tuesday, 21 January 2014

News: "Overrated" American Literature, Found In Translation, And Books

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American literature is "massively overrated" and "our reading habit has totally been transformed by the mainstream", say...
Tuesday, 14 January 2014

News: Hellebore, Mein Kampf, And A Hundred Words For Snow

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A New Zealand toxicologist thinks Alexander the Great may have died from drinking wine spiked with a toxic herb , most likely "Veratrum...
Monday, 6 January 2014

News: Books, Buses, And Hidden Snark

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Is the corporatisation of book publishing threatening the industry ? Seems that way, according to the late Andre Schiffrin, an indie publish...