Archives for Publish or Perish

A call for six-word memoirs. (Via the LA Times’s Jacket Copy.)

I don’t have anything useful to say about the suicide of David Foster Wallace, news of which has been widely if sketchily reported in the last 24 hours, except to say that it rattled me more than I’d have expected, and that most of my questions about it will likely never be answered. From my… Continue reading »

Not everyone has been hit hard, but the latest numbers have got many people rattled. What’s causing the decline, which has picked up speed in the last couple of months? It’s not just the economy. Is it textbook piracy? The used-book market? The misuse of course-management software, which profs sometimes use to download chapters to… Continue reading »

“Ageing chimp’s own story on list for Guardian first book prize,” sez today’s Guardian. (Haven’t the Brits learned how to spell “aging” yet? Honestly.) Me Cheeta: the Autobiography is billed as the true story of Cheeta the Chimp, star of Hollywood blockbusters, told “in his own words”. The book documents the life and times of… Continue reading »

I interviewed the manager of a young DC-area singer-songwriter named Chelsea Lee today, and he was telling me how he got her stuff on iTunes via TuneCore. (There’s also CD Baby, “a little online record store” that cuts out the middleman.) Artists pay a small fee up front but keep all the royalties and the… Continue reading »