{"id":2216,"date":"2009-07-17T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2009-07-16T19:41:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T03:41:41","slug":"friday-roundup-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/links\/friday-roundup-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cEvery separation is a link.\u201d \u2014 Simone Weil<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holtuncensored.com\/hu\/355\/\">Two authors tell reviewers where to get off<\/a> : &#8220;\u201cI will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/adverb-placement.html\">Separated by a common language<\/a> : Do Brits and Yanks place adverbs differently (or do they differently place adverbs?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?post=FightForYourIndependentsArchipelagoBooks\">Fight For Your Independents<\/a> : Archipelago Books needs your help<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/bookselling\/harvard_up_to_sell_1000_books_on_scribd_121778.asp?c=rss\">Harvard UP to sell 1,000 books on Scribd<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/on\/550_cut_at_mcgrawhill_companies_inc_121798.asp?c=rss\">550 cut at McGraw-Hill<\/a> : More signs of the times via GalleyCat<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/londonist.com\/2009\/06\/biblio-text_special_cecil_court_1.php\">Cecil Court<\/a> : London&#8217;s booksellers&#8217; row<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpencil.com\/company\/about\">FastPencil<\/a> : A new self-publishing platform<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.32poems.com\/1175\/things-to-take-to-a-writers-conference\">Things to Take to a Writer\u2019s Conference<\/a> : &#8220;Bourbon&#8221; is my favorite among these suggestions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nba.fanhouse.com\/2009\/07\/07\/its-on-point-guards-vs-sarah-palin\/\">Point Guards v. Sarah Palin<\/a> : &#8220;I can&#8217;t let a politician denigrate the position I&#8217;ve come to love&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Duly quoted<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I found out that all serious literary fiction MUST be written in the continuous historic present. Throughout the whole story, nothing must happen \u2013 in fact there must be no story at all \u2013 and the whole thing must be written in a tone of unremitting gloom. My book isn&#8217;t like that. It&#8217;s got a beginning, a middle and an end and everything.&#8221; &#8212; <a title=\"nicoll on literary fiction\" href=\"http:\/\/perpetualfolly.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/literary-fiction-defined.html\">Andrew Nicoll<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cShe didn\u2019t finish her term as mayor, stepping down to run for Lt. Governor. She didn\u2019t finish her term on the petroleum board ethics panel, she resigned in protest and then ran for Governor. 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