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  • February 16, 2014

    Who’s Cheating America: Unclean Hands Edition

    Okay, so you run a company called Advanced Sterilization Products. Given that name, what’s the minimum you need to do? You need to have products, obviously, and they must relate to sterilization. Anything else? Well, they should be advanced. Now of course, that’s a somewhat subjective term, so there’s probably some room for disagreement between Continue reading

    Who’s Cheating America
    advanced sterilization products, cheating
  • February 15, 2014

    What They Knew #26

    Just realized that yesterday I posted what may be the darkest, most morbid post yet. On Valentine’s Day. Hey, at least it had “love” in the title! In any case, let’s look at something more optimistic. “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how Continue reading

    Authors, What They Knew
    Anne Frank, Optimism
  • February 14, 2014

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Black Hole

    I’ve always had a love-hate thing with deep space. On the one hand, I’m fascinated (note to terrible poets: I’m happy to consider a poem about space for our terrible poem breakdown series). On the other hand, I find myself overwhelmed by the feeling of insignificance when thinking about anything farther away than the moon. Continue reading

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    Apparent Horizon, Black Holes, Dreams, Nature
  • February 12, 2014

    Who’s Cheating America? The Smoke-Filled Room

    Cheaters – they’re everywhere! Politicians promise us up and down they’re going to put an end to cheating. Work Hard and Play By the Rules, Americans! Isn’t that the motto? Do that and you’ll be fine. Except… when the politicians are themselves the cheaters. And the story of their cheating has a twist you could Continue reading

    Who’s Cheating America
    corruption, fat cats, politicians, Politics, scandal, tobacco
  • February 11, 2014

    Small Press Shout-Out: OR Books!

    A refuge for renegades, OR Books was founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson (the O and the R), who together have published an impressive roster of authors in their careers, including Tariq Ali, Andrei Codrescu, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, R. Crumb, Cory Doctorow, Andrea Dworkin, Eric Hobsbawm, Abbie Hoffman, Lewis Lapham, Gordon Lish, Rigoberta Continue reading

    Authors, Fiction, Publishing
    Arts, Literary fiction, OR press, Publishing, Small press, sochi, yoko ono
  • February 10, 2014

    Blurbs That Will Not Be Appearing on My Book

    Readers! Still trying to get the print version of The Race out there. It’s taking longer than I’d hoped. I do have one blurb lined up and a couple more in the hopper. I wish I had another one finalized to share with you (since Mondays are “Jacke News” day), but in the meantime, here Continue reading

    Authors, Fiction, Novellas, Publishing, The Race, Writing
    blurbs, Self-Publishing, The Race
  • February 9, 2014

    What They Knew #25: Proust on the Miracle of Reading

    “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” – Marcel Proust Continue reading

    Authors, What They Knew
    miracles, miracles, Proust, reading, solitude
  • February 8, 2014

    Who’s Cheating America? Gung Ho Edition!

    Ah, remember the days when we Americans weren’t afraid of China? Back when our boogeyman was Japan? You know, the days when bumper stickers said “BE American, BUY American” and movies like this one ruled the screen? Why were the Japanese so much better than us in the ’70s and ’80s? Because they cheated? Of Continue reading

    Who’s Cheating America
    Antitrust, Gung Ho, Japan, Michael Keaton
  • February 7, 2014

    The Kingdom of Publishing

    My biweekly trips through the New York Review of Books are often filled with pleasure, amusement, fascination, and appreciation. And then there are those rare occasions when I’m completely befuddled. I think I understand most of Jason Epstein’s tribute to Roger Straus (of publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux). But what to make of this Continue reading

    Authors, Fiction, Publishing
    Digital Publishing, Indie Publishing, Jason Epstein, NYRB, Straus
  • February 5, 2014

    Popova on Schopenhauer

    The great Maria Popova takes a look at our favorite dismal crank Schopenhauer.  (If you haven’t read Schopenhauer, start reading! Unless you’re one of those people who view cloudy days as a personal offense against your nature.) Popova’s article looks at Schopenhauer through a particular lens, asking whether he “presaged” today’s Internet writing on headline-and-slideshow Continue reading

    Authors, Fiction, Publishing, Writing
    popova, Schopenhauer
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