The Boston Globe reports that the Harvard Book Store is going up for sale. Though the owner, Frank Kramer, promises he’ll do his best to maintain the integrity of the store as it moves into its “next chapter” (as the Globe article so punningly points out), the news does strike fear into the independent bookstore-lover’s [...]
Entries from May 29th, 2008
Books are Independent Together
May 29th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: bookstores · Bridget · publishing industry
What could be more Boston Publishing than this?
May 28th, 2008 No Comments
So we’ve got a little inferiority complex that we’re still finding ways to manage here in Boston. We’re a city of a mere 600,000 people with the heart and ambitions of a much larger urban center. It’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed in locales the world over. If you ask a native Australian if he’s from [...]
Tags: betsy · Boston · freelancing · jobs · publishing and writing
This Week in Boston Publishing and Writing: On the Job Hunt
May 27th, 2008 No Comments
In honor of coming back to work after a long Memorial Day weekend (hey, if the Somerville trash pickup can take Monday off, so can we), we present the Pub Buzz Job Hunt Special Update!This week, TJ Dietderich, has accepted a job at Planned Television Arts, a freelance book publicity firm in New York [...]
Tags: emerson MA · jobs · publishing industry · This Week in Publishing
On Dampness
May 23rd, 2008 2 Comments
I’d like, if I may, to address the word drenched.
Drenched is a good word — very evocative. For example: “I was caught in a storm, and got completely drenched.” This creates a clear picture of someone dripping wet from head to toe. (”The cat was drenched after it fell in the toilet” is another excellent [...]
Tags: Andrew · language usage · writing
Master of what exactly?
May 22nd, 2008 No Comments
Monday afternoon found me sitting at the Wang Center (or whatever they’re calling it these days), wearing a cheap amorphous black robe, an overly complicated hood-esque thing, and a giant piece of cardboard attached to my head. Luckily, I was not alone: 300 other Emerson graduate students sat around me, waiting expectantly to be rewarded [...]
Tags: emerson MA · Jill · jobs · publishing and writing · publishing industry
Writing & Being Written About, Online
May 22nd, 2008 No Comments
No doubt in response to Llalan’s rather humorous post about her newfound Weekly Dig/hops-lover celebrity, the New York Times posted an article from this Sunday’s Magazine written by former Gawker blogger Emily Gould. It chronicles her addiction to and eventual escape from the insane amounts of attention she got from blogging about her personal [...]
Tags: blogs · Joe · nonfiction · writing
The Perils of Fame
May 21st, 2008 1 Comment
“So this is it!” I thought, the day my five-hundred-word baby was published. “This is what it feels like to be a writer.”
I was getting e-mails from friends and family congratulating me and reaffirming my suspicion that I am actually quite hilarious. Of course, I sent the link to most of these people, but how [...]
Tags: beer · emerson MA · getting published · Llalan · writing
This Week in Boston Publishing and Writing
May 19th, 2008 No Comments
Llalan Fowler is all over the Weekly Dig these days, stirring up quite the tizzy with her incisive view about femininity and a taste for good beer. Check out her column, “Extra Special and Bitter,” and weigh in on the issue of good taste and bad stereotypes– or just add your two cents to [...]
Tags: author readings · emerson MA · emerson MFA · nonfiction · This Week in Publishing
Strike and the Iron Is Hot
May 14th, 2008 No Comments
I found this article on Newsvine today about the ongoing repercussions of last winter’s writer’s strike. Generally viewership figures slumped and still haven’t recovered, but the point of most interest to budding writers is perhaps this one:
“Networks made fewer pilots of prospective new shows this year, in part because the strike meant less time to [...]
Summer Reading
May 14th, 2008 1 Comment
It’s May, which means spring is in the air, which also means pollen is in the air, which means you’re going to have to start barricading yourself inside to prevent the inevitable allergy overload. And what better activity when you’re trapped indoors for the summer than to read all those books you’ve been meaning to [...]