http://blog.vromans.com Independent Bookstore Wed, 09 May 2012 23:25:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.vromans.com/go-forth-and-read-these http://blog.vromans.com/go-forth-and-read-these#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:58:27 +0000 Patrick http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1005 Tomorrow will probably feature a write-up of my trip to New York, including a few bookstore visits I made, but as I get caught up on work today, please consider enjoying these fine websites:

• Jim Carroll, poet, musician and point guard, has passed away.  I won’t go on and on about him, but his book The Basketball Diaries was important to me in high school.  It was the first book I remember marking up.  I’d never read a book by someone who seemed smart and played sports.  Back in the day, I used to aspire to do just that.  He was also effortlessly cool.  RIP.

• The Guardian touches on something I think about a lot:  the uses of technology in fiction and how the emergence of the web and cell phones has changed how authors write (via The Morning News).

• At The Critical Flame, Richard Nash reviews The Late Age of Print.

• The Brooklyn Book Festival, as reported by Jacket Copy’s Carolyn Kellogg.  (I don’t recall seeing a NY Times piece about the LAT Festival of Books, but maybe I just missed it.)

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