New York – Jacke Wilson

January 27, 2017

History of Literature #77 – Top 10 Greatest Literary Cities

What makes a city a great literary city? Having a tradition of famous authors? A culture of bookstores and cafes and publishing houses and universities? Inspiring great books? Host Jacke Wilson is joined by Mike Palindrome, President of the Literature Supporters Club, for a discussion of the cities where literature finds itself most at home – including Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature, novelists, Podcast, Writing

berlin, buenos aires, Dublin, edinburgh, London, melbourne, New York, Paris, rome, san francisco, tokyo

April 14, 2016

Female Action Movie Stars… in the 1910s!?!?

Wow. It has been a long time since an article has made me think (and rethink and rethink) as much as this piece in The Atlantic, The Forgotten Female Action Stars of the 1910s. I can’t get over it. Just take a look at this publicity shot from 1918:: Here’s the description: A city editor orders an Continue reading

Authors, books

1910s, a front page affair, female action stars, female journalists, hollywood, kitty weeks, New York, radha vatsal

November 25, 2013

Small Press Shout-Out: Kaya Press!

Hard to top the logo of the great Kaya Press: A little puzzling? Not after they explain: “When tigers used to smoke…” is a traditional Korean phrase used at the beginning of folk tales, similar to “Once upon a time.” Korean folk paintings often feature images of tigers smoking long, bamboo pipes, often accompanied by Continue reading

Fiction, Publishing, Uncategorized

Kaya, Los Angeles, New York, Pacific Island, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Small press

September 17, 2013

Mr. Franzen’s Folly

How does someone so seemingly intelligent get things so wrong all the time? Here’s Franzen’s latest: “In my own little corner of the world, which is to say American fiction, Jeff Bezos of Amazon may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen. Amazon wants a world in which books are Continue reading

Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing

Amazon, Book, Franzen, Jeff Bezos, Jonathan Franzen, New York, Philip Roth, Publishing