Month: July 2009
Here’s your chance to prove your commitment to print. Purchase (the increasingly pointless) Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, or School Library Journal, all of which are on the block….
Readers of this blog are probably tired of this topic, but I have been spending a lot of time on this project, so it occupies my attention. I’ll…
Some authors rail against copy editors, and, sadly, the editors sometimes bring the enmity upon themselves. The latest author with a copy editor horror story is George Lakoff,…
“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil Art, God, and copyright : Is copyright discouraging creativity? Amazon’s Bezos Apologizes : “Stupid, thoughtless” Introducing LGoogle : The plex…
Many years ago, as a graduate student in comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a focus in part on the linguistic model in literary criticism, I…
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“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil Two authors tell reviewers where to get off : ““I will hate you till the day I die and wish…
I’m back from my short vacation, which was spent not being a tourist somewhere but rather working on my second library building. Even though I didn’t go away…
Right Reading is on a short summer vacation. (I might do some posting just the same, depending on how things go.) .
Many great books begin on a quiet note — think of Tolstoy’s “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” or…
Right Reading was pleased to receive the following news brief via inter office mail from bittermelon: Extra-Slanty Italics Introduced for Extremely Important Words NEW HOPE, MN—In an attempt…