I’m not sure that I buy that 1980 is the pivotal year in the turn to corporatization in the publishing business, but Scott Esposito writes about a striking observation made by Nina Siegal in a post on sales and quality at Conversational Reading. The interesting thing here, though not surprising, is that the nature of [...]
I didn’t catch the full debate, but I did enjoy reading this essay by Kevin Kelly, which asks if serious literature can be read online or if it should be relegated to print books. Well, that’s the gist as I understand it.
It’s a good question. I’ve noticed that there seems to be prejudice against reading [...]
I’ve been browsing YouTube for poetry videos for several weeks now. I’ve even subscribed to a few channels when I’ve come across poems that I thought made good videos. But until now, I’ve never seen a poetry video that just made me jump from my seat. But this one did.
I don’t know who this poet [...]