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Something for the Weekend

February 25, 2011

Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, has posted an amazing selection of vintage French photographic noir book covers at John Gall’s blog Spine Out. On the Defensive — Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, on teaching creative writing in The Financial Times: When you teach creative writing, you [...]

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Something for the Weekend

February 18, 2011

Punching Through the Din — designer Jim Northover on the exhibition of Saul Bass movie posters at Kemistry in London. This is the End — Sarah Weinman on chronicling the end of the chain bookstore era: But maybe what really happened was as simple as this: chain bookstores were never supposed to last as long [...]

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Merchants of Culture | The Book Show

February 3, 2011

Another really interesting interview with John Thompson, author of Merchants of Culture, about the past, present, and future of the book business. This time he talks with Ramona Koval for The Book Show on ABC Radio National: ABC Radio National The Book Show: John Thompson Mp3

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Merchants of Culture | Beyond the Book

January 26, 2011

An interesting interview with John B. Thompson, author of Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century, at Beyond the Book: [R]eaders are going to be faced with a growing proliferation of possibilities in terms of the ways that they read and consume the written word, and people will make different choices about [...]

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Something for the Weekend

January 14, 2011

Blinders — Charles Burns, author of Black Hole and X’ed Out, interviewed at Full Stop: I’ve never really – and this sounds stupid because I’m working in a commercial medium – but I’ve never thought about an audience, or written for a specific audience, per se. I’m just trying to pull together my ideas in [...]

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