It’s no secret to people here that the publishing industry is in disarray. The cost of printing is up due mainly to the cost of paper and labor. At the same time, publishing companies have an archaic system that allows unlimited returns of unsold product, resulting in about one third of all books being remaindered or repulped. Strange as that is, getting rid of it is the same as killing the last proud independent bookstores.
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The musings of someone who picked it up on the streets.
Honor and Sense
Suppose that you want to honor a great writer or other person whose work helped to make you who you are.
Would you do this through a cheap parody that you wrote quickly without ever thinking it through? Would you take just one of the themes that you loved and use it completely out of context, never trying to relate it to the rest of the work? Would you toss the works you love into a pile and let them fall into disrepair?
Kurt Vonnegut
A great hero of literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died.
Old age wound up suiting him well, allowing him to live as a sage. He enjoyed dispensing pithy truths from on high, a prophet who lived long enough to see his prophesies come to pass. He would bristle at this, telling us that in time all things come to pass, even his life. Modesty was one of his endearing qualities.
All the News That Fits, Prints
News is something that is hard to define. Events happen all around us, but which of these is “newsworthy”? Who gets to make that choice?
It was a dark and stormy night …
The sky has grown grey and heavy. The wind is from the East, which always hits like a knife to the back. Bad weather is never a good reason to start a blog, but it is the only excuse I have. I am retreating inside, an instinctive response to the betrayal of April, but still longing for Spring.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 