Friday roundup
“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil
- How long to it take to produce a book? : Production folks weigh in
- Hilarity in publishing? : CBS is banking on it
- Meet the gimmick books : High concept, low content
- Google Books needs a good librarian : Or were Raymond Chandler’s Killer in the Rain, The Portable Dorothy Parker, André Malraux’s La Condition Humaine, Stephen King’s Christine, The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Raymond Williams’s Culture and Society 1780-1950, and Robert Shelton’s biography of Bob Dylan really all published in 1899?
- Getting a blurb from Saul Bellow : Who probably thinks the book in question is luminous and compelling
- Faking photos before Photoshop : Photography has always had a problematic relation to reality
- Visualizing trending topics in twitter : Embeddable data
- Toulouse-Lautrec’s new colors : Overprinting with complementaries
- A machine for reading Hopscotch : Hurray, someone’s is still reading the Tour du Jour
- The origin of the mullet : A distinguished lineage
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Posted: September 4th, 2009 under links.
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Comment from jameshigham
Time: September 5, 2009, 8:10 am
Photography has always had a problematic relation to reality…
Alternatively, it can be seen to have a good relation to art.
Comment from xensen
Time: September 5, 2009, 9:11 am
“Reality” was probably not the best choice of words there. “Reportage” would have been better.
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Time: September 9, 2009, 4:24 am
[...] When’s That Book Coming Out? — A nice breakdown of the production process by Shelby Peak which explains why it seems to take a long time for books to be released after an author has turned in their final manuscript. Every time I read something like this, I wonder why we don’t hear from publishing professionals more often. It would be great to see publishers explain this kind of thing on their own blogs. (via blog.rightreading) [...]
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