I’ve been saying this shit for years regarding the snobbery puritanism over ebooks, which have been around since at least the 80s, traded or sold originally on floppy disks. Also, […]
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Tag: Books & Poetry & Short Stories
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” – Jodi Picoult
Revisiting My Digital Library (or Stop Being Threatened By Other People’s Reading Choices)
I’ve been tending to my digital housekeeping this weekend and thought about my digital library (books, newsletters, magazines, etc.). I’ve been using Calibre to manage my large ebooks library for several years. […]
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Influences, Illness and New Beginnings
I only took a few books with me to Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Anne Sexton’s “The Complete Poems” was one of the few I included to read. It was dog-eared, highlighted […]
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Exposure Can Kill You (or Starving for Your Friends is Bullshit)
Ian Sane / Foter.com / CC BY Scott Timberg, writing for Salon on, “Wil Wheaton is right: Stop expecting artists to work for free — or worse, for “exposure”“: […]
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New Book Release: Really Bad Poetry from the Eighties and Nineties
So, I finally did what I said I was going to do so many years ago. I put out a collection of my early poetry. I have only been talking […]
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She said…
She said… don’t move. She said… this doesn’t happen to men. She said… you should be thanking me. She said… keep your mouth shut. She said… […]
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6 AM at McPherson Square
6 AM at McPherson Square No one is up. Just us workerbees. Pink sky. Cool, strong breeze. The homeless men – and it is all men here – are huddled […]
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Dead Trees and Pixels (or Creativity Is The Real Answer)
Dead Trees and Pixels (or Creativity Is The Real Answer) by James Landrith crustmania / Foter / CC BY The e-books vs. dead tree media discussions and snobbery fascinates me. […]
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Interview with Author and Poet Joey Renee
Interview with Author and Poet Joey Renee by James Landrith James: I’d like to open up by asking you a few questions for the readers. Can you tell us […]
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Reblogged from Tumblr: “My Protest Poem for Language Arts Class”
“When a 16 year old girl in Ohio was filmed being raped by two boys at a party CNN reporters talked about how tragic it was because the rapists could […]
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