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 you nothing but ill will in every career move you make.”
• Separated by a common language : Do Brits and Yanks place adverbs differently (or do they differently place adverbs?)
• Fight For Your Independents : Archipelago Books needs your help
• Harvard UP to sell 1,000 books on Scribd and 550 cut at McGraw-Hill : More signs of the times via GalleyCat
• Cecil Court : London’s booksellers’ row
• FastPencil : A new self-publishing platform
• Things to Take to a Writer’s Conference : “Bourbon” is my favorite among these suggestions
• Point Guards v. Sarah Palin : “I can’t let a politician denigrate the position I’ve come to love”

Duly quoted

• “I found out that all serious literary fiction MUST be written in the continuous historic present. Throughout the whole story, nothing must happen – in fact there must be no story at all – and the whole thing must be written in a tone of unremitting gloom. My book isn’t like that. It’s got a beginning, a middle and an end and everything.” — Andrew Nicoll
• “She didn’t finish her term as mayor, stepping down to run for Lt. Governor. She didn’t finish her term on the petroleum board ethics panel, she resigned in protest and then ran for Governor. She doesn’t want the office, she just likes running for office.” — Alaska Girl
• “The world is literally her oyster.” — Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton

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