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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post says it all.  These are my thoughts, or in some instances, the thoughts of others that I have appropriated and reproduced here for your enjoyment (This being the internet and all): Dan Brown&#8217;s new book, which I mentioned in a previous post, will be about the end of the Mayan [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The title of this post says it all.  These are my thoughts, or in some instances, the thoughts of others that I have appropriated and reproduced here for your enjoyment (This being the internet and all):</p>
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<li>Dan Brown&#8217;s new book, which I mentioned in a previous post, will be about the end of the Mayan calendar.  I think this will test a theory of mine:  namely, that <a href="http://www.vromansbookstore.com/book/9781400079179">The DaVinci Code</a> was successful, at least in part, because of its religious content.  Add to that the fact that this book will be about a Central American culture, and not a European one, and I think we&#8217;ll see this book sell a bit less than his previous two.  Just a theory (and I&#8217;m sure others have had this theory, too.  I&#8217;m not actually claiming I&#8217;m the originator of said theory).  I&#8217;m happy to be proven wrong.</li>
<li>The Millions is concerned with the future of book criticism.  So concerned, in fact, that they&#8217;re running a three-part series on it.  Parts <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/04/future-of-book-coverage-part-i-rip-nyt.html">1</a> and <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/04/future-of-book-coverage-part-ii.html">2</a> are already up.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.vromansbookstore.com/kate-christensen">Kate Christensen</a> <a href="http://nymag.com/arts/books/bookclub/wetlands/index5.html">on the book <em>Wetlands</em>,</a> which is apparently very big in Germany:  <em>I just learned from a friend as I was whining about how much I can&#8217;t finish <em>Wetlands</em> that there are hugging cafes in Berlin where lonely people go to be hugged by strangers who are there for the same purpose; have you all heard of this already? I have a feeling that the popularity of this weird, pathetic, babyish fad dovetails somehow with the runaway success of this book over there, people allegedly fainting in readings, how many copies sold?</em> Thanks to <a href="http://julieklam.wordpress.com/">Julie</a> for the link.  Oh, and have I mentioned that <a href="http://www.vromansbookstore.com/kate-christensen">Kate will be at Vroman&#8217;s on June 29?</a> I have now.</li>
<li>Ever since I saw Adventureland, I&#8217;ve been on a major Replacements kick.  As such, check out this awesome outtake version of Can&#8217;t Hardly Wait:  <object width="220" height="70" data="http://www.lala.com/external/flash/SingleSongWidget.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="id" value="lalaSongEmbed" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="flashvars" value="songLalaId=360569496712478216&amp;host=www.lala.com&amp;partnerId=membersong" /><param name="src" value="http://www.lala.com/external/flash/SingleSongWidget.swf" /><param name="name" value="lalaSongEmbed" /></object>
<div style="font-size: 9px; margin-top: 2px;"><a title="Can't Hardly Wait [Outtake - Acoustic] - The Replacements" href="http://www.lala.com/song/360569496712478216" target="_blank">Can&#8217;t Hardly Wait [Outtake &#8211; A&#8230;</a></div>
<p>And while you are at it, read <a href="http://filmfemme.com/2009/04/14/adventureland/">Gillian&#8217;s review</a> of the film:  <em>I was planning on including a paragraph here about how the female characters were all somewhat detestable, but that really wasn’t the case, I think I just want it to be.  Actually, Em is probably the most complex character in the film and even though she does make poor choices and behave irrationally at moments, that is easily attributable to the fact that she is human, not that she is a woman.  This can often be a problem with feminist theorizing: it can backfire and have you (me) end up demonizing women instead of…you know, not doing that which is the whole point.</em></li>
<li>There&#8217;s lots of internet chatter about <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123980920727621353.html">this ebook article</a> in the Wall Street Journal online by Steven Johnson.  The short summary is that he&#8217;s pretty impressed with ebooks and thinks they represent the biggest thing to happen to publishing since the printing press.  Normally, this is the kind of article I would unpack and examine and respond to with some analyses of my own, but, well, I&#8217;m super busy today.  So Steven Johnson gets a pass.  (I will take issue with this, though:  &#8220;Reading books will go from being a fundamentally private activity &#8212; a direct exchange between author and reader &#8212; to a community event, with every isolated paragraph the launching pad for a conversation with strangers around the world.&#8221;  This rhetoric of the internet being about communicating with people in far-flung places has got to stop.  The internet, it seems to me, is fundamentally local.  You talk to the same people online that you talk to in everyday life.  I talk to my wife online dozens of times a day.  I have a friend who moved to Barcelona last year.  When he lived in LA, we talked on Facebook with some regularity.  Now he lives in Barcelona, and we talk with less regularity.  Some of this is because I&#8217;m a bad friend, and I suffer from major out-of-sight, out-of-mind syndrome, but it&#8217;s also because I&#8217;ve found that Facebook and Twitter and blogging are all excellent supplements to my physical world.  In other words, the internet isn&#8217;t a separate place.  I&#8217;ve fallen victim to this thinking before, and I&#8217;m determined now to stop.  Let&#8217;s all stop.)  Read <a href="http://wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/how-do-we-really-use-books-anyway/">Rich&#8217;s post</a> in response to Johnson&#8217;s.</li>
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		<title>Monday Round-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a busy day in the book world, and not just because the Pulitzer Prize is announced today.  Here&#8217;s a few things to keep track of: The publishing industry is safe for another year:  Dan Brown&#8217;s new book, The Lost Symbol, will be released in September.  According to &#8220;sources,&#8221; the book is about the end [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a busy day in the book world, and not just because the Pulitzer Prize is announced today.  Here&#8217;s a few things to keep track of:</p>
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<li>The publishing industry is safe for another year:  Dan Brown&#8217;s new book, The Lost Symbol, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/longawaited-dan-brown-book-coming-in-september.html">will be released in September</a>.  According to &#8220;sources,&#8221; the book is about the end of the Mayan calendar.  I eagerly await Tod Goldberg&#8217;s reaction.</li>
<li>Speaking of Tod Goldberg, click over to read his excellent and frequently hilarious <a href="http://todgoldberg.typepad.com/tod_goldberg/2009/04/your-annotated-guide-to-the-la-times-festival-of-books.html">annotated guide to the LA Times Festival of Books</a>.  For example: &#8220;I&#8217;m seriously thinking of skipping my own panel to hear Mary Gaitskill. I have a thing for her. And by &#8220;thing&#8221; I mean I&#8217;d wear a suit made from her hair and skin. I hope that doesn&#8217;t creep her out.  Aimee, Gioconda and Dylan are great as well, I just wouldn&#8217;t wear their flesh as an outfit, which I think they appreciate.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/jg-ballard.html">J.G. Ballard</a> and <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/james-d-houston-rip.html">James D. Huston</a> both passed away yesterday.  There are many excellent eulogies of both authors online today, including <a href="http://ballardian.com/">this excellent post from ballardian.com.</a></li>
<li>Last week it was Amazon, but <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/google-book-search-s-1.html">maybe we ought to be worried about Google books, too.</a> &#8220;I like Google&#8230;But <em>no one</em>, not Google, not <em>Santa Claus</em>, should have this kind of leverage over the entire world of literature. It&#8217;s abominable. No one benefits when markets consolidate into a single monopoly gatekeeper &#8212; not even the gatekeeper, who is apt to lose its edge without competition to keep it sharp.&#8221;</li>
<li>It is the 10 year anniversary of the Columbine killings.  I will use this opportunity to plug Dave Cullen&#8217;s book <a href="http://www.vromansbookstore.com/book/9780446546935"><em>Columbine</em></a>, which every bookseller I know <a href="http://skylightbooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/columbine-blame-it-on-marilyn-manson.html">raves</a> about.  You can read some of Cullen&#8217;s work on <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2216122/">Slate</a> today, as well (<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2216050/">excerpt</a>).</li>
<li>And finally, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/iphone">Indiebound has just launched an iPhone app</a>.  I&#8217;ve used, and it looks and works very well.  Install it (it&#8217;s free), use it, love it.</li>
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