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The fruits of late summer
Scuppernongs and Muscadines Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian I spoke at a writing association recently where I noted that it takes me several years to finish an essay. I saw dismay on the...
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Bristlecone: A Practical Plan for Practical Dogfooders
In response to my vision of Bristlecone – a preservation plan for literary journals — Mary Molinaro wrote, Her idea of a preservation plan for literary journals, named Bristlecone, has some positive...
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In Praise of Succeeding
Torture irons on the ship SUCCESS (LOC) Last weekend on Twitter I saw a post: “Tell me your favorite books on failing and failure, especially as it relates to innovation and leadership.” I responded...
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ebooks, pbooks, mebooks, and parrots
Yes, I Eventually Do Explain The Parrots Here is a very interesting question others have posed: are libraries that license ebooks through Overdrive violating state patron-privacy laws because Amazon...
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Neologists Unite
Back in 2004 I coined a term, “biblioblogosphere,” that managed to catch on. I wasn’t trying to coin a term. (What an interesting phrase, involving smelting and mints and all that.) I was just writing,...
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Between an ebook and a hard place
Last week the ever-interesting Barbara Fister observed over on Inside Higher Ed, People are beginning to notice that big publishers are not really all that interested in authors or readers; they are...
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Heartsick
I realize this is old news for many of you by now (a full 24 hours after the story broke) but I waited until I was home and — donning my writer’s hat — could compose my thoughts about the discovery...
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Word.
The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage So, about my writing. I mean my literary-essay writing, not blog posts or journo-style magazine writing or academic writing. I’ve spent the past year: Moping over the...
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The Cassoulet Saved Their Marriage… The Melting Pot Helped Ours
Today is the publication day for The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage, an anthology of essays about marriage and family edited by Caroline Grant (of Literary Mama fame) and Lisa Catherine Harper (writer...
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Postcards from the underworld: Doctoral program, semester 2
Harry Potter’s Marauder’s Map I was told this, my second semester, would be the hardest, and by gum, they delivered. For a lot of reasons, this was a heck of a time, an overload of schoolwork in the...
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