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Midweek Staff Meeting – No. Seriously. Don’t.


You do not have a book in you, so don’t try.

‘My enemies have been successful in representing me as a poet and a visionary.’

A history of garden hermits.

Paper makes a comeback.

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Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Print Will Never Die


goat_2Have e-books and printed books found their levels?

Richard Dawkins is kind of a jerk.

The top 100 best selling poetry books of the 2010s, in terms of SPD (small press distribution) sales and I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t read a single one of them (which isn’t to say I haven’t bought any poetry in the last few years).

You can hire a herd of goats for only 25 cents per hour, per goat!

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Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Retrieval Versus Creation


Writing longhand opens up a different range of skills.

Renaissance murder victims.

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Weekend Reading – Jane Austen Is Particularly Tasty


Reading Jane Austen might be more than normally good for your brain.

Life as a bookseller.

More life as a bookseller.

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Midweek Staff Meeting – Reading Makes You Smarter, Fools!


Read more books. You will become smarter, get better jobs, and be able to pick up a better class of men/women.

So… Shakespeare made a lot of butt sex and cunnilingus jokes.

You can buy copies of Shakespeare’s works at your local, independent bookstore, which is not only good for local property values, but also makes you smarter, as we learned earlier.

 

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Midweek Staff Meeting – You Could Always Be Wrong


Ex Cathedra and fallibilism.

Study philosophy. Get a decent job. In that order.

Freedom is just another word for French existentialism.

The typewriter and Modernism are behind the very notion of ‘revising your work.’

A new defense of poetry.

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Weekend Reading – All The News That’s Fit To Print


Where do you get your news from?

Who are you without memory?

Someone new to decline your bad poetry.

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Midweek Staff Meeting – Don’t Change A Thing


Perfect… just the way they are.

Chronicling The New York Review of Books.

Should Darwin have died?

The art of Occupy.

France will not abandon her bookshops!

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Monday Morning Staff Meeting – They’re Hungrier Than You Think


Pamphlets_1-4_1_300_456Do great white sharks require more energy than we thought?

Whither publishers?

Literature is business.

Was Howard Zinn a lazy historian?

Poetry broadsides are back!

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The Secondhand Bookshop Smell


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