The Popular Edge, Pop-Up and Book Arts News. Seen Reading. Dovegreyreader scribbles. 'We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours for ever....they've gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass...' I have been giving some thought to my COBALT (Crisis Of Brilliance Art & Literature Trail) reading plans for this year, and much as I used to hate having to come up with Aims and Outcomes back in my working days (couldn't we just get on with it and see) I did want to try and outline for myself the Objects of the Project.. 1. Not to be cast down (as in become overwhelmed and downcast by it all) 2.
Of course I want to honour the centenary and the sacrifice, and discover, and be challenged and more, but above all I don't want to feel miserable all year either, so I continue to pick my way gingerly through the mass of potential reading I first read A Month in the Country back in ( checks journal) September 2006 which meant I had to go digging around in the blog basement to find out what I had thought about it over seven years ago. The story was the same. Bibliophile Bullpen. Booktwo.org | Literature + Technology. Bookride. The Millions. If:book. Important two-part piece by Melville House publisher, Dennis Johnson Part I The furor over Milo Yiannopoulos’s book deal with Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions inspires this publisher to ask one question of the disconcerted: Where have you been? Because this is where American publishing is now—or at least, the fifty percent of it dominated by the so-called “Big Five”—and it’s been there for a long time.
Look at Threshold alone: It’s published Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Donald Trump. S&S launched the imprint back in 2006 (with Mary Matalin as its founding editor) when Random House’s conservative Crown imprint (publisher of George Bush) formed an even more conservative sub-imprint, Crown Forum (Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan), in 2003 … which in turn had been a response to Penguin’s 2002 formation of its conservative Sentinel imprint (Mike Huckabee, Scott Walker). It’s the modern predicament in a nutshell — the normalization of the most vile nonsense.
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