Month: July 2009

Publishers Weekly for sale

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….

First library building

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…

A role for the copy editor

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,…

Friday roundup

“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…

Topicality in literary writing, and its implications for web search optimization

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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Friday roundup

“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…

Library expansion

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…

On vacation

Right Reading is on a short summer vacation. (I might do some posting just the same, depending on how things go.) .

Overwrought openings

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…

Breaking news in typography

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…