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I would think the real accomplishment is to do NaNoWriMo 11 more times in a row for the rest of your life…
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Paulo Coelho Sells 99-cent eBooks
Is it me, or does it seem like he’s chasing something?
Remember this?
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When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
- re: The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling’s new one…
(Source: littlebrown.co.uk)
“Birth of a Book”
A short vignette of a book being created using traditional printing methods.
For the Daily Telegraph. Shot at Smith-Settle Printers, Leeds, England. The book being printed is Suzanne St Albans’ ‘Mango and Mimosa’ published as part of the Slightly Foxed series.
Shot, Directed & Edited by Glen Milner.
Paulo Coelho on writing. Stick with it, a bit autobiographical. Some gems to be found. I’m certain the next edition will punch.
(Source: paulocoelhoblog.com)
Taylor at 13.
This is not a bookcase. This is my bedside stump.
Last night I lassoed all the stray books I haven’t read. Some purchased in curiosity, others on sale, others were handed to me.
It’s obvious I’m quicker in the acquisition than in the consumption. It’s time I lose myself.
One art museum to rule them all. The Art Museum is a compilation of the greatest works of art from around the world.
…the book itself weighs in at 18 pounds, measures 16 1/2 by 12 5/8 inches and runs nearly 1,000 pages.
The Art Museum is divided into 25 galleries, as opposed to chapters, and each gallery is divided into several rooms, which all told include reproductions of more than 2,700 works.
The idea for the project began when Phaidon publisher Richard Schlagman suggested imagining a museum with unlimited space and an unlimited budget.
“It didn’t matter how famous the works were, how large, how small, how inaccessible to the public,” Renshaw says.
A team of 100 people — curators, teachers, researchers and editors — spent the next decade imagining and developing that museum. Tracking down the works presented a considerable challenge.
In my next house, I’m going to build a bookcase based on this concept.
![Slate: The endpapers for the book [above] depict a variety of familiar science-fiction figures—which you drew yourself. Do any of the figures represent you?
Atwood: On benevolent days, the fairy with the magic wand and butterfly wings. On edgy days, the girl with the snake hair and extra eyes on stalks hatching out of the egg. On bad days, the one running and screaming while being chased by the wolf/goat splice. Although I was not thinking about any of this while drawing.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt9ung94jl1qbto1zo1_500.jpg)
Slate: The endpapers for the book [above] depict a variety of familiar science-fiction figures—which you drew yourself. Do any of the figures represent you?
Atwood: On benevolent days, the fairy with the magic wand and butterfly wings. On edgy days, the girl with the snake hair and extra eyes on stalks hatching out of the egg. On bad days, the one running and screaming while being chased by the wolf/goat splice. Although I was not thinking about any of this while drawing.
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The National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Fiction, 2011
The honorees are:
- Shani Boianjiu, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
- Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
- Mary Beth Keane, The Walking People
- Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
- John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back
