I decided to stop tipping. Why give money to waiters? They’ll just squander it. Think about it: that’s 20% of every meal cost right back in my pocket. BOOM.
Editors’ Blog
On Pandabearing
As a white male literary publisher, life is hard. Like, I want to put panda bears on everything, but no one will let me.
Also posted in Editors' Blog Tagged Claire Vaye Watkins, Kyle Minor, Stephen Elliott
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#RockBannedBooks
10 Donald Hall Quotes
“Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything.”
Also posted in Editors' Blog Tagged Donald Hall, Poet Laureates, Poetry, Poets, Quotes
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National Poetry Month 2013 Open Thread
Why New York’s Literary Crowd is Suddenly in Thrall to Hungarian Fiction
Hari Kunzru sees New York’s literary hipsters flocking to a translation that offers some meat and gristle to chew over.
Jeffrey Ford: Tribute to a Mentor
Even students who love writing aren’t thrilled about first-year composition. If not taught well, the classwork and assignments feel routine, like practice with no chance for game time.
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National Poetry Month 2012 Open Thread
Put your poetry here, poetic people.
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Author Strip Searches: Google Keyword Mashup Haiku
We also get more searches about dating a stripper than we can fathom due to an ancient article by Greg Bruns…I thought, why not make haiku combining these searches?
Why Can’t Amazon and the Indies Just Get Along?
Amazon riled up the book-reading world again, using a price-checking app promotion to declare war on the brick-and-mortars.
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On Second Thought, Maybe I Won’t Do NaNoWriMo This Year
Some time tomorrow, which is the first day of November, the second to last month of the year twenty eleven a.d., a Tuesday like so many other Tuesdays that have come before and likely will come again barring any unforeseen incidents…
Sailing: Good Clean Fun!
The waters are rising to record highs near our headquarters.
Stories of Prohibition and the Return of Identity Theory
“Prohibition never works,” except as a subject for the latest features on Identity Theory.
