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The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered

4 December, 2017 // 0 Comments

Editor's Note: The following poem was written by Clive James. I haven't been able to reach the author and secure permission for posting it here, so I will simply share the first of 4 stanzas and link [Read More ...]

“If Animals Could Talk” is the Next Great NSFW Kid’s Book

5 October, 2017 // 3 Comments

Remember a few year's back when Samuel L Jackson delighted parents everywhere with his narration of the NSFW humor book Go the F*** to Sleep? I think I just found his next project. If Animals Could [Read More ...]

The Boston Typewriter Orchestra (video)

13 September, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reduced to a museum piece, the typewriter is now good for little more than confusing kids and giving curmudgeons a last bulwark against modernity. And it is also apparently good for making music. The [Read More ...]

An Audio Tour of a New Indie Bookstore

23 April, 2017 // 2 Comments

CBC Radio has a satirical take on the growing trend of bookstores devoting less stock to books and replacing them with gewgaws: Local bookstore Epilogues sells everything you could ever want in a [Read More ...]

“The Last Jedi” Plot Summary Leaked Onlined

1 April, 2017 // 8 Comments

There has been much speculation about the next Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi, and the online frenzy only doubled when the Spanish, German, and other language versions of the posters revealed that [Read More ...]

James Patterson Now Blurbs His Own Books

26 March, 2017 // 1 Comment

Ask any expert in book marketing about blurbs and they will tell you that you should get the biggest name you can find to recommend your books. Clearly James Patterson's publisher, Hachette, has [Read More ...]

Erotic Novelist Chuck Tingle Launches Breitbart Parody

11 January, 2017 // 2 Comments

The most recent news about the president-elect is so absurd that you might think political satire is dead, but Chuck Tingle doesn't think so. He's just launched a new parody site called Buttbart.com: [Read More ...]

Here are Cats. With Books

8 November, 2016 // 0 Comments

What with everyone and their second cousin urging you to go out and perform a civic duty today, I thought my readers could do with some non-coverage of 2016's hottest story. So here is a gallery of [Read More ...]

Life Imitates Art – Truman Capote’s Ashes Sold for $44,000

26 September, 2016 // 1 Comment

Here's a story which should sound familiar to Star Trek fans. The Guardian reports that Truman Capote's mortal remains were sold at auction this week: The ashes of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at [Read More ...]

Infographic: How to Publish Your Novel During a Skeleton Apocalypse

17 September, 2016 // 1 Comment

Tom Gauld has just published a handy little visual guide which explains how indie authors can get their book published during the skeleton apocalypse. Basicallt he recommends adapting to [Read More ...]

The Perils of Taking Too Many Books on Your Holiday Trip, and Other 1% Problems

20 July, 2016 // 5 Comments

The Spectator has a solution for anyone who is haunted by the prospect of having too much to read while vacationing on the French Riviera: Holidays are a welcome chance to lose ourselves between the [Read More ...]

JA Konrath Releases Trio of Adult Coloring Books

10 June, 2016 // 5 Comments

Trad pub may have been the first to cash in on the recent adult coloring book craze, but now indie authors are joining the fun. Earlier this week author Joe Konrath published a trio of coloring [Read More ...]

So You Want to Write a Novel (video)

23 May, 2016 // 0 Comments

In lieu of the usual Monday morning infographic, here's a video about the reasonable aspirations of newbie writers. As we all know, great writers spring into existence wholly formed, with all of [Read More ...]

Xkcd, Kerning, Full-Width Justification, Kerning, and Light Sabers

4 May, 2016 // 14 Comments

Between its strips on kerning, dates, and diacritics, the webcomic xkcd has shown itself to be adept at poking fun at bad formatting. Today the webcomic turned its attention to kerning again, [Read More ...]

Battle of Hydraulic Press v Book Ends in Pyrrhic Victory (video)

24 April, 2016 // 3 Comments

The Hydraulic Press channel is one of those examples of what happens when engineers have access to industrial equipment and too much time on their hands (see the Slingshot channel for another [Read More ...]

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