Publishing Perspectives’ year-long exploration of the plays of William Shakespeare, The Play’s The Thing, begins Titus Andronicus this week.
Our Climb Up Mt. Shakespeare Continues, Shrew Starts Monday
Publishing Perspectives’ continues our year-long group read of Shakespeare, “The Play’s the Thing,” with The Taming of the Shrew, beginning today.
Read The Frankfurt Book Fair Blog
By Erin L. Cox Publishing Perspectives is publishing live from The Frankfurt Book Fair this week (subscribe to our email edition to get twice daily coverage). And, next door to us are the delightful Frankfurt Book Fair bloggers (some of whom write regularly for Publishing Perspectives) who are giving even more timely coverage on the FBF blog. Check out the Frankfurt …
Can Being a Bad Blogger Hurt an Author’s Career?
By Edward Nawotka In today’s lead story Neil Gaiman, Emily Benet and a bevy of industry pros offer their thoughts about blogging and why it’s (mostly) a good idea to do it. It is received wisdom these days that all authors should be blogging. But is that true? What if an author is simply unsuited to it? Or is incapable …
“Connect, Don’t Network”: Author Blog Award Winners Gaiman, Benet on Blogging
By Edward Nawotka “Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk,” says author Neil Gaiman, winner of the Twitter category at the inaugural Author Blog Awards given last month in London. Gaiman is among the most popular authors on Twitter, with 1,467,539 followers as of yesterday, May 3. It should also come as …
Proust: The Perfect Beach Read
By Dennis Abrams Spring is here, summer will fast be upon us, and for most readers, it’s the time for fat juicy mindless paperback novels, perfect for idling away the time while at the beach or on vacation. This year though, why not try something different? There’s still time to join us on our year long journey through Marcel Proust’s …
The Mistake on Page 1,032: On Translating Infinite Jest into German
By Amanda DeMarco “The limits of my language are the limits of my world,” Ulrich Blumenbach quotes Wittgenstein as saying in a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article to describe the challenges and inducements of the six years he spent translating David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (Unendlicher Spass) into German — something he did without input from the author, who refused to speak to …
From Twilight Guy to Bestseller
Editorial by Kaleb Nation On April 16, 2008, I started a website called TwilightGuy.com with a short introductory post and the tagline “A Guy Reads Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.” I went to bed. By the next morning, 3,000 people had already visited. So began my journey through the vast and remarkable world known as the blogosphere. When I originally started …
Day One in The Cork-lined Room
By Dennis Abrams Today we begin our one-year journey through the entirety of Marcel Proust’s 20th-century masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, which will be taking place on our companion website, The Cork-lined Room. We anticipate that at a pace of 10 to 15 pages per day, excepting weekends, we should be finished in a year. The first posting about …
Will 360 Million Chinese Boycott the Internet?
By Edward Nawotka BEIJING: Today is the day China turned off the internet. Or at least that is the hope of artist Ai Weiwei. Weiwei called on China’s 360 million internet users to “stop working, reading, chatting, blogging, gaming and mailing” to protest the Chinese government’s demand that computers users have to have installed its controversial Green Dam Youth Escort …
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