Alas, dear readers, we’ve moved from the “long speeches on stage” phase of Media Re:public to panel-land. Panels are a great way to put a lot of cool people on stage… which is useful, because it allows you to invite them to the conference and feel honored as attendees. But they’re murder for bloggers. Panelists don’t use slides, they react to time constraints by flitting topic to topic, and you can barely finish looking up one speaker before the next one takes the mic.
But common sense, simple decency and the number of chairs available didn’t prevent the organizers from putting eight panelists on stage for an hourlong discussion titled, “It’s 2013: Do You Know Where Your News Is?” Fortunately, they’ve put everyone’s favorite standup legal philosopher on stage to manage the crowd.
A few observations from the seven of the panelists who I heard:
Jonathan Taplin , a professor at Annenberg, believes that we&...
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My friend Lee is ridiculously gorgeous. She is tall, and very slender,
long-legged and narrow-hipped, absolutely lovely with a cloud of blonde hair,
and just generally--gorgeous. Gorgeous was a word that was kind of invented for
her. You are surprised, when you meet her, that anyone could be as pretty
as she is in real life. And you are lucky to have met her, because she is funny and warm, confident
and hilarious and fun. You can’t imagine her ever having a moment of
self-doubt, because w...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 13:30:00
Richard Price Week gets extended some more now that his new novel, LUSH LIFE, hits stores today:
Michiko loved the book
So did USA TODAY’s Carol Memmott
As did Jerome Weeks
James Mustich conducts a Q&A for the B&N Review
Katherine Lanpher interviews him in podcast format for B&N
Critical Mass finishes up their CLOCKERS retrospective with parts 2 and 3 of Mark Athitakis’s interview and a word from Scott Phillips and Rayfiq Abdellah
Sam Anderson at New Yor...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 13:17:06
Our latest review is of Roberto Bolano’s Nazi Literature in the Americas, the fourth Reading the World 2008 title to be reviewed on Three Percent. This was highly anticipated and totally lives up to the hype. ...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 13:03:44
from my publisher:
“Unfortunately the royalty statements reflect sell-in (which was great) rather than sell-thru (which has not been as great), so the next time you receive a statement, you may see a lower number, depending on returns.”
glossary:
sell-in — total number of books sent to bookstores
sell-thru — total number of books sold by bookstores to consumers
i figured something was amiss.
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