Category: thought

Finally found the time to read this. Excellent summation of the history and current state of the modern eBook battle.

My takeaway: The publishers are inherently doomed because they have no idea who their customer is.

What I believe in.

This article starts out as a somewhat sensational look at the gay superhero fetish scene in NYC. It then, after the first few paragraphs, goes on to look at the intersection, similarities, and growing inclusion of GLBT and comic culture. 

I understand the need to lead with the sensational to get folks past the headline and to read further. That said, this is almost like two separate and loosely connected pieces with one far more interesting, topical, and important than the other.

Mark Twain as literary critic as gleaned from the margins of the countless books in his personal collection that he feverishly critiqued and often corrected.

I have always said that the mark of a good writer is a good reader an, by this account, Mark Twain was one of the best.

Fascinating stuff. (thx Shawn Blanc)

Wonderful interview with someone who is always a wonderful interview no matter who he is interviewed by. Yet, it is so much more satisfying when it is by someone who is a wonderful interviewer.