My Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005 Round-up continues to attract mad eyeballs due to some additional links from various fine folks:
– Jason Kottke at Kottke.org
– Rolf Potts
– A Girl Apart
– Ben’s Journal
– Gadling
– Isaak’s Thoughts
– Pygmalion in a Blanket
And don’t miss the comments to the survey, in which Richard Lewis (blogging from Bali), […]
Big ups to the folks who’ve linked to the Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005 round-up so far:
– Dana at #1HS
– Mark F. at BoingBoing
– Wendy
– Nick at Blogebrity
UPDATE : more links from Maud Newton and Ben’s Journal.
UPDATE 2: Baylen Linnekin at To the People and Library Autonomous Zone pile on the linklove.
UPDATE 3: Kristen Murray […]
For the third year running, I asked some of my favorite bloggers to weigh in on their favorite books of 2005.
As in previous surveys, respondents weren’t limited to titles published this year, but simply any book they discovered during the last 12 months that made a lasting impression on them. (I’m happy to say, […]
Mars and Venus meet in a creative writing class.
For my most recent Gridskipper dispatch, I covered last night’s launch party for a new DC guidebook.
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The WSJ’s Jeffrey Trachtenberg tells us that book publishers are now building buzz long before new titles are published, just as Hollywood studios aim to generate pre-release excitement so their movies “open big.”
There’s another parallel here that Trachtenberg neglects. Namely, that when it comes down to it, publishers — just like Hollywood studio honchos — […]
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According to the NYT’s Juan Forero, coca-legalization proponent and indigenous coalition leader Evo Morales just might become the next president of Bolivia.
The election of Morales in Bolivia would represent the triumph of indigenous groups over the minority white elite ruling class — as well as the rejection of what’s viewed as American imperialism and the […]
When he was all of nineteen years old, Truman Capote wrote a novel that is only now being published; he said he’d destroyed it. The current New Yorker has an excerpt from the book illustrating that Capote’s genius for stylish prose manifested itself at an early age indeed:
Broadway is a street; it is also a […]
I took a few poetry classes* with Chinese-American novelist Xuefei Jin when he taught at my college**. (And he even wrote me a gradudate school recommendation letter.) He had yet to become a literary big shot when I met him — a couple years after I graduated, he won the National Book Award and the […]
A few years back, when I was living in Ecuador, Jill and I went to the sleepy coastal town of Puerto Lopez for a beach vacation. We stayed at the excellent Hosteria Mandala. As we were checking out, I noticed that the owners of the place, an Italian-German couple in their 40’s, had a big […]
WSJ: “Using Fiction to Sell Fiction: Book Publishers Create Fake Web Sites, Offer Free Downloads to Promote Titles”
A house made out of books!
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For the second year running, I asked some of my favorite bloggers which books they most enjoyed over the last year. (Not necessarily books published in 2004, but any book they discovered over the last 12 months.) Here’s what they said.
(Before we start: have a Weblog and want to contribute your picks? Email me […]
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