#FridayReads – Incantation by Laughter and The Thing Around Your Neck
by budparr on May 21, 2010
We had a little party the other night to celebrate the release of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. Twenty or so people gathered in a beautiful Manhattan apartment with the treat of having the renowned poet, and president of (…)
Do Tools Matter? On Collaborative Writing
by budparr on May 17, 2010
Matt Bell is a terrific writer and an exemplar of ‘born digital.’ If you follow writing circles online you will find Matt. That’s one reason -two, actually – I’m watching his online writing exercise this week at “Everday Genius,” the (…)
What Web Media Can Learn from Print
by budparr on May 13, 2010
With the death throes of Newsweek there are a lot of Web publishers wallowing in schadenfreude as the scales are tipping in their direction. What Newsweek has shown is that there’s more to being successful on the Web than being there (…)
Blogs, Twitter, the Kindle: The Future of Reading at The PEN World Voices Festival
by budparr on May 11, 2010
PEN World Voices Festival“Blogs, Twitter, the Kindle: The Future of Reading” was the panel I went to at PEN World Voices Festival (video) that – If you happened to have followed my twitter stream during the event you know - (…)
My sentiments exactly: Max Magee on Book Reviews
by budparr on May 10, 2010
This is the sort of thing the Web does well. Max is a great editor who created his own site and quietly shakes things up by not just going along with the traditional idea of the book review. Instead of (…)
“The Black Minutes” at the PEN World Voices Festival
by budparr on May 7, 2010
We have a bunch of PEN World Voices Festival posts at Words Without Borders, including my post on discovering Martín Solares’s novel The Black Minutes. Read them all at Words Without Borders.
When Google Dominates the Way We (Find, Buy) Read E-books
by budparr on May 4, 2010
This morning Google announced – re-announced – that they will launch their foray into e-book selling as soon as this summer. Chris Palma, Google’s head of Strategic Partner Development, spoke this morning at the offices of Random House as part of (…)