- Mark Sarvas reviews Levin and Leavitt. I ponder the perfect mathematics of Mr. Sarvas reviewing two titles with authors whose last names begin with the letters “LE.” 12, 5 (2.4 differential, .4 applied as additional oomph when comparing two tomes).
- What accounts for the clunkiest lines in Shakespeare? A hangover? Nah. Deadlines, methinks.
- The Virginia Quarterly Review has added comics! (via The Beat)
- Who needs subtle book covers?
- Rather than announcing an imprint like normal publishers, Little, Brown is considering a comic imprint. Come on, Hachette! Don’t be a wuss. Take the plunge! It worked out for Chris Staros. It can work for you! More comics! More, I say!
- Kassia Kroszer takes umbrage with the Borders Book Club.
- Sam Lipsyte on Houellebecq (via Rake)
- The Independent talks with Marjane Satrapi. (via Laila)
- Tony D’Souza on researching the Ivory Coast.
- Brian Sawyer’s wife could use your support for the Boston Marathon. (Proceeds to go to cancer research.)
- Bud Parr asks Laird Hunt some questions.
- Seeing as how a baby is popping out of a uterus, shouldn’t that be extrusive?
© 2006, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.
Thanks so much for the link, Ed! It means a lot to me and Kristina, whose fundraising is off to a great start.
The publisher’s marketing department really gave it the college try for Eat Me. I was a bookseller at the time it came out, and they sent us t-shirts with the cover you linked. There was also a male version featuring a banana and two grapes. Good times…
z(0) = z, z(n+1) = z(n)*z(n) + z
And I mean it.
I don’t think it works, TEV.
To begin with, the comma between z and z(n+1) doesn’t have a meaning…
::blush:: I actually copied and pasted that from a site. I think it’s part of the mandelbrot set algorithm, but it’s truncated.
I just said it to re-establish a bit of democratic fairness.
Sometimes you, men of humanae litterae, especially you, TEV, act as if the domain of literature was your own realm, which should not be entered by those who are not critics or writers.
I, instead, enjoy to share what I know in my own field. And if education was enough to improve…oh well, that’s another post.
PS – Before you point it out, English is not my first language.
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying, May, but I’ll accept that you mean well. But you’re quite wrong about one thing – I think literature is the realm of all those who love it. Whatever else you might think you detect in my posts seems more a reflection of you than of me.