I wore out a few 8-track tapes as a teenager. One of them was by Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam. He was recently banned from entering the United States due to a Homeland Security no-fly list. Last night Larry King intereviewed him. (more…)
Google has introduced a new service at the Frankfurt Book Fair:
New Google Service May Strain Old Ties in Bookselling
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of there being life elsewhere, and now a signal has been detected three times that may be a sign of alien intelligence.
Here’s the google cache of the CNN link.
A review in Guardian Unlimited examines Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives by Madeleine Bunting. The book appears to be unavailable in the U.S., but the review alone provides food for thought . . . .
In a feature found closer to home, (more…)
That’s the headline of a July 18, 2004 New York Times article by Laura Miller, of interest to those of us who’d like to be traditionally published.
The article offers statistics from R. R. Bowker on numbers of books published per year, as well as comments from editors, many of whom chose not to be named. One of the authors quoted in the article is M. J. Rose, who’s a member of my favorite mystery listserv.
Aside from some depressing numbers, indicating that the supply of published fiction has out-stripped demand, what disturbed me most (more…)
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