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Monday, April 16th, 2012
Welcome to the surreal world of The Vorrh. (more…)
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Tags: alan moore, alan moore fantasy, brian catling, brian catling fantasy, brian catling the vorrh, cyclops, david lindsay, fantasy, hope hodgson, iain sinclair, impressions of africa, mervyn peake, new fantasy, raymond roussel, the vorrh
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
I’ve been reading about disgruntled publishers pulling out of dealing with Amazon for months now. Upset over the percentage that Amazon is demanding. It’s head-scratching stuff.
Let’s get this out the way first: Amazon is a giant in the world of e-commerce. No, let me rephrase that, Amazon is the giant. The majority of online buyers that I know go to Amazon. They have no need for Joe Bloggs Publishing, no need to care. All Amazon wants is to continue making massive profits. Which is fair enough. For anyone who has worked in the corporate world, this comes as no surprise. (more…)
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Tags: amazon, Amazon and independent publishers, Amazon independent publishers, Amazon publishers, independent publishers, small press Amazon
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
This week: Austin Osman Spare, edible and smokable books, author portraits from Carl Kohler and more.
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Tags: austin osman spare, blood, blood painting, carl kohler, conium review, corrine de winter, David Foster Wallace, don delillo, doris lessing, edible books, fuck you, japan, japan tsunami, jordan eagles, painting, revolution house, robert pirosh, shoulda known better, smokable books, snoop dogg, the golden notebook, the golden notebook turns 50, this week's reading
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
UPDATE: We are not currently offering internships. We will update this page when we have vacancies or are in need of extra help. Thanks for your understanding.
Internships: we need help, and you need experience. It’s all one big happy win win situation really. Sort of. We would like you good people to help us with our plight to make the world’s most original and inspiring literature become available to…the world, and to keep independent literature alive and well, and maybe even slightly comfortable also, with a pillow fluffed behind its back. (more…)
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Tags: Honest Publishing Internships, Honest Publishing jobs, publishing internships, publishing jobs
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
This week’s motley links round-up:
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Tags: adrienne rich, amiga, andy warhol, april fools, Bukowski, can, debbie harry, Ernest Hemingway, flash mob, Harry Crews, hemingway, martin scorcese, nick cave, richard brautigan, richard oelze, taxi driver, this week's reading, thomas pynchon, troels carlsen
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Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Things that cornered our addled, easily distracted minds this week:
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Tags: albertus seba, amos tutuola, antichrist, avant-garde, book auctions, dogtooth, extreme films, film4, films, london book fair, marcus gunnar, music about writers, naked, rainer werner fassbinder, russian literature, songs about writers, this week's reading, tonino guerra, william blake meets thomas paine
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
All writers, whether they be poets, short fiction authors, or novelists, have had enormous influences on their writing. For me those influences range from Dostoyevsky to Fitzgerald, from Pablo Neruda to Bob Dylan. Sometimes a poet can have an influence on my fiction, and sometimes a novelist can have an influence on my short fiction. But for many years there has been something else, something extraordinary, something you don’t have to buy, something that is right there all of the time like a 24-hour a day classroom that is always at your disposal. (more…)
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Tags: Boardwalk Empire, Bob Dylan, Breaking Bad, Curb Your Enthusiasm, David Foster Wallace, Deadwood, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, hemingway, Jonathan Franzen, kerouac, LOST, Lovecraft, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Nip/Tuck, Pablo Neruda, Phillip Roth, Sherman Alexie, short fiction, Short Stories, short story books, Silvia Plath, Steinbeck, The Killing, The Shield, The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, The X-Files
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
It seems like a silly question – what is poetry? But in many ways I think it is crucial, so, for World Poetry Day, let’s spend a bit of time glaring at the roots.
What is a poet? A poet is someone who practices the art of writing poetry. Is someone adept at writing poetry.
The South Korean film, Poetry, tackles the poet/poetry issue in a very interesting manner. The protagonist, an elderly lady, decides to join a poetry class. She then struggles throughout the entire film to write a poem because she can’t get her head around how to be poetic, although her life, experience and troubles are perfect poetic fodder. She makes notes of what she sees and eventually these notes turn into a poem. (more…)
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Tags: becoming a poet, Bogdan Tiganov, bt, Poetry, what is poetry, world poetry day, writing poetry
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