August 2009
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Neighbor in a Strange Land →
Lascar Musgrove reviews Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun for The Millions and reports on a panel discussion the author held in New Orleans with the book’s subjects, Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun.
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“We need to try harder with print. We can’t just give up on it. Inevitably there...”
– Dave Eggers discussing his new book Zeitoun the future of print in this Rumpus.net interview. Eggers’ philosophy is most clearly seen in the kinds of books published by McSweeney’s; they’re beautiful objects in themselves, with nice paper and foil-stamped covers and creative...
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“It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry,...”
– Clay Shirky writing in his blog post Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. This is only a small snippet of a long, thoughtful, depressing, and ultimately hopeful analysis of the huge changes the Internet is forcing on newspapers and book publishers.
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Jonathan Lethem runs a used bookstore →
The store, Red Gap, is located in Blue Hill, Maine. It’s also supposed to serve really good coffee. Not that I’m the least bit jealous or anything that one of my favorite authors has appropriated my dream of bookstore ownership. Oh well. (via Maud Newton)