kafka font Post Source: blog.markcnewton.com Posted: Nov 20 2008 20:59:56
some geekery a font is made from kafkas handwriting .
the manuscripts of author franz kafka had such a profound impact on finnish graphic and type designer julia sysmalainen that she decided to convert his handwriting with its unusually strong calligraphic characteristics into a digital script. the philologist took on the challenge to transform in kafkas rather eccentric letter for...... [Show More]
if youre rawi hage youre probably spending today hauling back on a bottle of jack daniels and wondering what happened. for the second time hage scored the canlit trifecta of award nominations the scotiabank giller prize the governor generals literary award for fiction and the rogers writers trust award for fiction for his novel cockroach. his 2006 debut de ni...... [Show More]
from carl wilson
it sounds like a piece of sketch comedy like a fake ad for tupacs greatest voice mail messages or jimi tunes his e string but actually i dont know that ive been more excited about any book in a long while than i am about franz kafka the office writings kaf kas most interesting professional writings composed during his years as a high...... [Show More]
ah florida. what a luxury this year that for a change we can think of florida and electoral votes together with books not chads in mind. but whatever map were talking about florida is a big state and im very glad we were able to bring in a local expert to make our initial delegate selections for us. if youve been reading book blogs for any amount...... [Show More]
does literature do a better job of explaining the world to itself than academia well duh. eight people read each academic book and five of them have essays in it.a academia shouldnt be trying to explain the world to the world it should be trying to explain it to the novelists and poets. well take it from there. stand back you pencilnecks. we have work to do. fiction including poetry ...... [Show More]
a terrible situation over there. an internet blogger and a writer who disguised an attack on burmas dictator in the form of a love poem were among dozens of activists sentenced to draconian jail terms as the junta ordered a fresh crackdown on dissidents. nay myo kyaw 28 who wrote blogs under the name nay phone latt was sentenced to 20 years and 6 months in jail by a court in rangoon. the p...... [Show More]
after sitting on the idea for a couple of months discussions like this one have finally forced me to draft a book review policy . its kind of wordy but i think it covers everything i wanted to say. if i find that i need to make some adjustments later on ill post about it here. so authors publishers and publicists if you have a book that youd like me to review get th...... [Show More]
kafka knew office hell Post Source: paperbackgirl.tumblr.com Posted: Nov 07 2008 15:23:21
kafka knew office hell a new book is coming out called franz kafka the office writings . whoa did kafka experience the uncertainty of layoffs and that annoying coworker who keeps popping his head over the cubicle partition as bookninja put it kafkaesque bureaucratic bewilderment existed prekafka. gawk er...... [Show More]
a new book is coming out called franz kafka the office writings . whoa did kafka experience the uncertainty of layoffs and that annoying coworker who keeps popping his head over the cubicle partition as bookninja put it kafkaesque bureaucratic bewilderment existed prekafka. the dark insectloving metamorphosis author used to be a bigshot lawyer and this will be a collecti...... [Show More]
be jackson pollock Post Source: noeyeinpirate.tumblr.com Posted: Oct 30 2008 21:52:34
be jackson pollock press any key to start.
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the british library is releasing some snazzy and rare recordings of authors . and the guardian article includes an audio clip with virginia woolf sounding like an elocution instructor who will beat the shit out of you with a sharp riding crop until you crawl across her parquet bleeding and pleading until the uhs and you knows are most definitely out of your vernacul...... [Show More]
campaign finance honesty
ericka andersen
yahoo search market share apparently inversely related to yahoo
john paczkowski
the campaign finance boards new rules
dan jacoby
fun with finance
claire cameron...... [Show More]
hello hello Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Oct 29 2008 21:22:46
still alive still reading. school is rather busy. regular posting might resume in a week or two.
in the mean time anybody here know episode 9 of ulysses scylla charybdis 822141 really well because i have an essay and a presentation due for tomorrow . email me
for the rest of you here is a jackson pollack simulator game via bookninja .
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its too late to vote but not too late for some laughs bookninja invites ... creative ... new spins on familiar titles. winners announced here .
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literary mixology Post Source: www.mediabistro.com Posted: Oct 29 2008 18:14:22
as news of publishing and media cuts mount galleycat readers have prescribed different kinds of alcoholic solace. following bookninjas lead readers submitted their favorite author and drink pairingspopping the cork during these dark days.
abbeville manual of style recommended read hart cranes collected poems the way he liked to write them on a full bottle of wi...... [Show More]
at likely stories we cover book covers with a little help from our friends. first you can test your skill at judging books by their covers its a shameless but quite clever way to drum up a little revenue from amazons associates program. thanks ben
second bookninja has a funny bookcover contest. thanks danahope no one minds if i republish my t...... [Show More]
what do you drink with your favorite book over at bookninja readers are comparing drink recipes to accompany their favorite books. the blog includes sex on the beach for reading andrew davidsons the gargoyle and a 1500 bottle of chateau petrus for reading michael ondaatjes divisadero.
after a long week of layoffs and cutbacks galleycat pondered other whiskeyrelated r...... [Show More]
aww i wanted eunoia to win. but im also tickled to see ingrid paulson take top honours she designed my fist book please. hopefully it wasnt meant as a parody..
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questions for christopher buckley the right stuff interview nytimes.com christopher buckley refers to himself as a hack novelist but i rather enjoyed his novel thank you for smoking the movie while not as good was fun. this is just another interview about his fall from grace for endorsing barack obama but provides some additional insight into the man i found interesting.
youtu...... [Show More]
...booknin jas own offerings including belovedas apocalyps e. the entires will make you laugh and think about the more serious repercussions of rebranding.
voting is still open email editorsbo okninja.co m with your top three picks by friday.
one of my favorite contenders is cormac mccarthys the road as parenting book. for a higherres version check out the site itself....... [Show More]
happy friday to all.a it finally feels like fall outside the election is almost here halloween is a week away and despite all this we are all at work.a so it goes.a take some pleasure in the links below in the fact that it is friday and in the changing colors of the leaves outside.a have a great weekend
in defense of piracy
mock campaign ads from familiar directors.
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the bemoreawesome website and magazine bookninja is holding a contest who can most successfully rebrand a wellknown book by redesigning its cover to make it look like a genre book heres how the official call for entries read
so take your favourite literary novelist and rebrand one of their titles to appeal to more popular sectors chicklit thriller romance scififa...... [Show More]
the good folks at bookninja have been running a contest rebrand your favorite authors and books to appeal to a broader audience of supposedly simpler tastes the finalists are hilarious. i found the rebranding of cormac mccarthy s the road particularly awesome.
po sted by kenichi on october 21...... [Show More]
last week we posted some of glarks tv spoofs which used the style and fonts of popular series title cards to rechristen the shows with more appropriate titles lost became winging it pushing daisies became overengineered quirk battlestar galactica became name that cylon . now bookninja has a contest encouraging readers to do the opposite take wellknown books a...... [Show More]
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