books
November 20, 2009
- "Books are like wines. You develop a taste for them, and everyone has, a unique palette." __Michael Pokocky 2009
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November 18, 2009
- Over the years I have read and bought hundreds of books, I love to read and I love to read to my grandchildren. Every book I choose to read to them I read first, it must pass my standards of books. It can have violence, just not graphic and it must be a learning experience for the characters. No sex, but it can have love, compaction, intimacy and God these are a part of life.P.S. I am a ...
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November 17, 2009
- My third book has just been released; all 612 pages of it. 'The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: A Descriptive Catalogue' is a big doorstop of a book (very useful if you want to whack someone over the head), and the first of its kind on this specific subject. The catalogue started out as a very personal project. When I first began studying Utamaro's prints in 1986, I kept a ...
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November 16, 2009
- I've about had it with the big box stores. Today Nancy and moi trailed through four or five of them, logging 8,000 steps on my pedometer. The one good thing about these stores being, of course, you get a lot of exercise, even if someone pushes you in a cart. If they were smart they'd advertise: ``Shop your way to a trim waistline.''In any case, if I can get the backing – and I expect millions ...
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November 14, 2009
- I'd like to announce the release of my third children's picture book, Humberto the Bookworm Hamster, now available in both print and ebook formats! Humberto is an antisocial little hamster… he’s totally addicted to books! His neighbors, the squirrel, the rabbit, the skunk, the hedgehog and the beaver want to become his friends, but Humberto doesn’t have time for them. He’s too busy ...
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November 14, 2009
- When moving out of a sprawling suburban home six years ago, my husband and I scanned the floor-to-10-foot ceiling book shelves in our den. Each of us packed the books we could not part with. The rest—about 2,000 books—were donated to charity.In our new Manhattan apartment, we settled into two offices lined with shelves, but since my husband’s office was larger, once in a while I snuck there ...
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November 8, 2009
- I did not choose Claude Levi-Strauss; he was thrust upon me. Structuralism was far from my mind when I was gifted a bunch of his books. A couple of academicians were arguing over the merits of burdening me, a work in progress, with the abstractions of totemism. The argument did not take place across the table. The two individuals did not know each other. I carried the messages to and fro and ...
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November 7, 2009
- How many authors do you know that would enter a contest for book exposure? I've known more than a few myself. It's a good idea because it generates really good sales. A contest that awards excellence may even get an author noticed by the bigger publishers-- another bonus. Authors try and do a lot for their books because they have great passion for them and their readers. Having said ...
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November 7, 2009
- There will be much much more on this over the next few weeks and months, but for right now, head over to Salt's blog to win a copy of Short Circuit - the hot-off-the-press Guide to the Art of the Short Story, edited by my great friend and colleague, the wondrous and extremely hard-working Vanessa Gebbie. Short Circuit includes my essay on flash fiction and I am deeply honoured to be in the ...
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November 7, 2009
- In Neil Gaimen's journal he writes this,"And finally, a link to Joanne Leow's blog. It was lovely to see her again, four years on, when I went to Singapore - it was a great interview, and you can watch us chatting about writing, what I'm currently up to, signings, and why I don't write the same sorts of things twice in a row, at the Primetime Morning site: here's part 1 and part ...
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