The Context From a piece on the NYT’s Paper Cuts blog: True to the form, [Nobel laureate José Saramago's blog] posts are mini-essays, many of them shorter than a newspaper column, in which he tackles subjects from politics (“George Bush expelled truth from the world, establishing the age of lies that now flourishes in its [...]
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Creative Nonfiction Calls for Blog-Lit Submissions
April 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Tags: blogs · Creative Nonfition · New York Times · Paper Cuts · submissions
How I Spent My Winter Break “Not Being A Writer”
January 5th, 2010 2 Comments
I’ve heard it said that writers should need to write, and not just want to like any amateur with an idea and a blog. In fact Bukowski has a nice poem espousing that very idea. But here’s the thing: I think that idea is a bunch of crap put forth by pretentious assholes like Bukowski [...]
Tags: blogs · break · Bukowski · Emerson · Joe · Winter · writers' habits · writing
Paid Content: It’s all about the Washingtons
August 3rd, 2009 1 Comment
During my first year out of college I worked at a tutoring center, and I became well-versed in the language of academic advice for teenagers trying to get into college. One night I saw an ad online requesting articles about preparing for college. I subsequently wrote an article and received 50 dollars. “I could do [...]
Tags: blogs · Chris · Content · freelancing · Money · publishing industry
Bookstores’ Online Presence -or- Now What?
July 21st, 2009 No Comments
What does it mean when a bookstore enters the digital age? This is a question Robert Gray has been looking at in his past few posts on Fresh Eyes Now and Shelf Awareness, book trade blogs. This is also a question I’ve been asking myself since I became editor of The Globe Corner Bookstore blog [...]
Tags: blogs · bookstores · Independent bookstores · Llalan · self promotion
Coming Soon: Vernacular the book?
March 30th, 2009 1 Comment
These days, it seems like nothing is pure when it comes to media. Books turn into movies, which spawn video games and TV series. Magazines and newspapers direct readers of the print edition to exclusive online content (and vice versa). Authors of books take advantage of free publicity opportunities by becoming bloggers. And now, the [...]
Tags: blogs · books · publishing industry · Tanya
Welcome to Vernacular’s New Home!
March 17th, 2009 1 Comment
Do you ever go to your best friend’s house, or website, or blog, and think, “Is something different?” The walls are painted, the furniture reorganized? Well as you can see, we’ve found a new home at www.vernacularlit.com, so I’m going to get really arrogant for a second and say that you may want to update [...]
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Vernacular’s 10,000th
February 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Happy last Sunday in February, also known as Oscar Sunday! I’d like to take a moment today to announce an achievement of our own, that while not cinematic, still gives me a small shiver of glee: We hit our 10,000 visitors mark! … sometime, we think, in the last week or two (probably while getting [...]
Tags: blogs · emerson alums · Emerson College WLP Department · kim · support Vernacular
Post Calls Kettle Black
January 31st, 2009 2 Comments
Everybody’s got a friggin’ blog these days. Your president. Your bookstore. Your mom.Among the growing throngs of bloggers, of course, are Emerson writers. Practically everyone I know has one, or is starting one up, or contemplating joining their peers in the vast clusterfuck of online word spewage. I get it. We spend all our time [...]
Hot Reads: Blogs That Sizzle
January 6th, 2009 1 Comment
What kind of reading material can you never have too much of? You guessed it: blogs! Well, perhaps that’s not true– several blogs out there are quite tiresome, verbose, or irrelevant. HOWEVER, not here! We at Vernacular only choose the wittiest, sharpest, and quirkiest blogs to peruse, so here are two new ones to hit [...]
Tags: blogs · emerson courses · kim · matthew salesses · Megan Marshall · writing process
Regret the Error
January 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Nothing is more satisfying than pointing out the errors of others. That, at least, is part of the impetus behind Craig Silverman’s blog, Regret the Error, in which he notes entertaining–or egregious–corrections listed in major publications such as the New York Times. Over time, Silverman has collected some of those corrections into Regret the Error, [...]
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