June 2007
- Poetry in Movies
- by Bud Parr on 06/22/07 (0 comments)
- Hope for Gotham Book Mart?
- by Bud Parr on 06/22/07 (0 comments)
- The Future of the Book is in This Man’s Hands
- by Bud Parr on 06/22/07 (0 comments)
- Frank on the Classics
- by Bud Parr on 06/21/07 (0 comments)
- Cotter, Eshleman, Vallejo
- by Bud Parr on 06/21/07 (0 comments)
- Highlights from Poetic City Event June 20th, 2007
- by Bud Parr on 06/21/07 (0 comments)
- The Lion Tamer Gets Wrapped Up in His Whip
- by Bud Parr on 06/18/07 (0 comments)
- The Complete Review Just Got a Little More Complete
- by Bud Parr on 06/18/07 (0 comments)
- Vanity Fair on African Literature
- by Bud Parr on 06/15/07 (0 comments)
- Words Without Borders
- by Bud Parr on 06/15/07 (0 comments)
- Bookforum…
- by Bud Parr on 06/12/07 (0 comments)
- As Only The Times Could Do
- by Bud Parr on 06/12/07 (0 comments)
- The Lofty Madeleine
- by Bud Parr on 06/09/07 (0 comments)
- Note
- by Bud Parr on 06/06/07 (0 comments)
- A McCarthyism
- by Bud Parr on 06/05/07 (0 comments)
- BookExpo Panel on the Influence of Blogs: Roundup
- by Bud Parr on 06/05/07 (0 comments)
- Seven
- by Bud Parr on 06/04/07 (0 comments)
- Highlights from BEA/NBCC Panel on Ethics and Book Reviewing
- by Bud Parr on 06/03/07 (1 comments)
- Letter from BookExpo
- by Bud Parr on 06/03/07 (2 comments)
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The Future of the Book is in This Man’s Hands but thankfully not in this woman’s.
“I never really liked the title classics: the word has become debased, perfect for shoes and cookies and golden oldies. In so far as it does retain a meaning it suggests canonicity, and though I have nothing against canonicity, the category isn’t coextensive with that of books that are still worth reading. And from the start I wanted us to mix up old and new books, wanted to bring out connections between the past and the present. I suppose you might describe the books we do not so much as classics, with its ring of the classroom, as books that are—so we hope—still in the repertory—thinking of the book as a kind of score and of reading as kind of mental performance.”
- Edwin Frank, editor of NYRB Classics, interviewed at Litminds blog
“If the book review as a genre of newspaper journalism were to disappear, book culture would not suffer all that much…If literary criticism were to disappear, book culture would not survive.” – Dan Green
“There’s no reason to block the page up with weird little marks. If you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate.”
- Cormac McCarthy on Oprah
