My favorite non book related blog is Office Tally, a fansite for the NBC show The Office. Each week Office Tally does a weekend tally — a collection of links and stuff related to the office that’s happened over the weekend. Inspired by that, I’ve decided that I’m going to start a Monday Tally, which [...]
News and Notes
In the last few days I’ve read a couple of interesting blog posts/articles about the role of literary criticism and reviews in a changing literature market, and am just getting around to posting about them. The first comes from Jacket Copy, the LA Times Book Blog. The post is called “Being a freelance critic for [...]
After 10-years at the top of various best-sellers lists, Harry Potter has finally been knocked off. While this story seems newsworthy in that it’s almost like the end of an era, I also think it’s interesting because of the way the Harry Potter phenomenon changed the way The New York Times did their best-sellers lists. [...]
In my enthusiasm at starting a bookish blog, I began by bookmarking a whole bunch of other blogs in hopes that they would give me some ideas and things to think about adding to mine. What a great idea, because I already have topic! Jacket Copy, the LA Times Book News and Information Blog, just [...]
