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"I demand that the governments of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Indonesia and Egypt apologise to me. Otherwise I am unfortunately forced to threaten, beat up, kidnap or behead their citizens." Sonia Mikich defends her (our) cultural values. Premalink - Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Slate's wonderful round-up of 2005's most notable cultural happenings.
Barrons', that bastion of liberalism, calls the Bush Administration's electronic surveillance without warrants Unwarranted Executive Power.
Notes from the famous McKee Screenwriting Seminar, good for wrtiers of all types.
Lance Arthur evaluates New York versus San Francisco head to head. Guess which wins?
The Casa di Libri of Livio De Marchi.
The former editor of the Goldsboro and Wayne County, NC News-Argus explains how the secret to his success as a novelist comes early in the morning.
Elisabeth Sifton remembers "Editing Saul Bellow" and gives a lesson in the art of literary revision.
What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? John Howard Kunstler says we're in for RollingStone.com:"The Long Emergency".
Carl Wilkinson in the Guardian wonders if book proposals are a new form of literature.
Washington Post article on book publicity and how "Writers, Retailers Team Up to Push Their Own Agendas."
Michael Thomasky in the American Prospect saying that what gives conservatives an advantage is actually a Philosophy Gap.
Richard Curtis looks at the changes in mass market paperbacks and the implications for the entire publishing industry
Peter Beinert's long, challenging but important essay on the history and future of the Left.
Ten Things President Bush Doesn't Want You To Know About Scalia and Thomas.
Psychology Today looks at "parental hyperconcern" as the reason we're A Nation of Wimps.
Foner Books explains What Amazon Sales Ranks Mean - Estimating How Many Books Sold by Amazon.
Michelle Cottle finally brings some common sense to the wailing about Bush's victory.
Doonesbury Bereuter letter.
Gail Beckerman in the Columbia Journalism Review explains the realities of contemporary book publishing as "A First-Time Nonfiction Author Learns That Getting Published Is Not Necessarily the Hard Part."
Terry Teachout explains the realities of book publishing.
Tom Payne in the Telegraph UK offers a guide to the worst book review jargon.
A leading light of the "liberal media consipiracy," NPR's Scott Simon, rips apart Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11."
The founder of Ruminator bookstore discusses the reasons for its demise, which don't have a lot to do with the superstore chains.
Steve Zeitchik skewers the bias and sloppy thinking behind "Outfoxed," the documentary devoted to skewering the Fox Network.
A British literary agent talks about the horrors of publishing and how important it is to manage authors' expectations.
Here's a thoughtful article on how not to react to rejections.
According to R.R. Bowker's statistics, 175,000 new books were published in 2003, up 19% over the previous year.
Literary agent Andrew Wylie tells his story.
Claims vs. Facts Database for debunking conservative dishonesty.
On the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's KQED, the SF Chronicle's TV critic Tim Goodman levels a blistering attack on the station and on PBS, calling it "one of the worst-run, thoroughly backward media entities in the country."
Joseph Epstein on what it takes to be a writer.
Message to all academics and journalists: Who Needs an Agent? You Do!
The Bush Administration's lies about Iraq, on the record, courtesy of Rep. Henry Waxman.
Shocking but true: Pat Buchanan makes sense when he eviscerates Frum, Perle and the other nerdy-macho neocons who call for jihad against Islam.
Paul Berman lists the six reasons why "the war in Iraq is an antifascist war."
Adam Greenfield defends Ikea and Starbucks against the malcontents.
Andy Kessler writes about his adventures in self-publishing.
Lee Seigel in The New Republic says "Angels in America" is protected art, but not actually very good.
Revenge of the Nerds.
A Foreign Affairs review of a new book by an eminent economist that "takes on globalization's critics, disarming them with logic and killing them with compassion."
US News & World Reports exposes the Bush Administration's mania for secrecy.
Michael Crichton critiques "the religion of environmentalism."
The Onion gives a brilliant, not-really-satirical explanation of why Poor People Pretty Much Fucked.
A historian offers proof and argument that "America is not a Christian nation but rather a nation of mostly Christians. That was the intent of the Founders, to allow each of us the right under natural law, to decide matters of conscience for ourselves."
Church Sign Generator
Douglas Gantenbein in Slate says: Stop calling firefighters "heroes."
Mark Steyn's uncomfortable (and snotty) but persuasive analysis of Democratic weaknesses.
Tom Payne examines the art of the rejection letter.
So just how much is $87 billion?
Lance Arthur evaluates New York versus San Francisco head to head. Guess which wins?
The Casa di Libri of Livio De Marchi.
The former editor of the Goldsboro and Wayne County, NC News-Argus explains how the secret to his success as a novelist comes early in the morning.
Elisabeth Sifton remembers "Editing Saul Bellow" and gives a lesson in the art of literary revision.
What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? John Howard Kunstler says we're in for RollingStone.com:"The Long Emergency".
Carl Wilkinson in the Guardian wonders if book proposals are a new form of literature.
Washington Post article on book publicity and how "Writers, Retailers Team Up to Push Their Own Agendas."
Michael Thomasky in the American Prospect saying that what gives conservatives an advantage is actually a Philosophy Gap.
Richard Curtis looks at the changes in mass market paperbacks and the implications for the entire publishing industry
Peter Beinert's long, challenging but important essay on the history and future of the Left.
Ten Things President Bush Doesn't Want You To Know About Scalia and Thomas.
Psychology Today looks at "parental hyperconcern" as the reason we're A Nation of Wimps.
Foner Books explains What Amazon Sales Ranks Mean - Estimating How Many Books Sold by Amazon.
Michelle Cottle finally brings some common sense to the wailing about Bush's victory.
Doonesbury Bereuter letter.
Gail Beckerman in the Columbia Journalism Review explains the realities of contemporary book publishing as "A First-Time Nonfiction Author Learns That Getting Published Is Not Necessarily the Hard Part."
Terry Teachout explains the realities of book publishing.
Tom Payne in the Telegraph UK offers a guide to the worst book review jargon.
A leading light of the "liberal media consipiracy," NPR's Scott Simon, rips apart Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11."
The founder of Ruminator bookstore discusses the reasons for its demise, which don't have a lot to do with the superstore chains.
Steve Zeitchik skewers the bias and sloppy thinking behind "Outfoxed," the documentary devoted to skewering the Fox Network.
A British literary agent talks about the horrors of publishing and how important it is to manage authors' expectations.
Here's a thoughtful article on how not to react to rejections.
According to R.R. Bowker's statistics, 175,000 new books were published in 2003, up 19% over the previous year.
Literary agent Andrew Wylie tells his story.
Claims vs. Facts Database for debunking conservative dishonesty.
On the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's KQED, the SF Chronicle's TV critic Tim Goodman levels a blistering attack on the station and on PBS, calling it "one of the worst-run, thoroughly backward media entities in the country."
Joseph Epstein on what it takes to be a writer.
Message to all academics and journalists: Who Needs an Agent? You Do!
The Bush Administration's lies about Iraq, on the record, courtesy of Rep. Henry Waxman.
Shocking but true: Pat Buchanan makes sense when he eviscerates Frum, Perle and the other nerdy-macho neocons who call for jihad against Islam.
Paul Berman lists the six reasons why "the war in Iraq is an antifascist war."
Adam Greenfield defends Ikea and Starbucks against the malcontents.
Andy Kessler writes about his adventures in self-publishing.
Linton Weeks in the Washington Post looks at the great divide between literature and popular fiction.
Lee Seigel in The New Republic says "Angels in America" is protected art, but not actually very good.
Revenge of the Nerds.
A Foreign Affairs review of a new book by an eminent economist that "takes on globalization's critics, disarming them with logic and killing them with compassion."
US News & World Reports exposes the Bush Administration's mania for secrecy.
Michael Crichton critiques "the religion of environmentalism."
The Onion gives a brilliant, not-really-satirical explanation of why Poor People Pretty Much Fucked.
A historian offers proof and argument that "America is not a Christian nation but rather a nation of mostly Christians. That was the intent of the Founders, to allow each of us the right under natural law, to decide matters of conscience for ourselves."
Church Sign Generator
Douglas Gantenbein in Slate says: Stop calling firefighters "heroes."
Mark Steyn's uncomfortable (and snotty) but persuasive analysis of Democratic weaknesses.
Tom Payne examines the art of the rejection letter.
So just how much is $87 billion?
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune calls "bullshit" on Dick Cheney.
Why even much of the Palestinian leadership believes that Arafat must go.
Michael Mechanic in Metro weekly discussing the history and implications of an impending milestone: by the middle of the next decade, there will be more registered cars than there are people in the United States.
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