Great piece on what we do to books in NYT 8/28/11

Reading Life-What We Do to Books

Physics for Poets

it defies words, really

older article praising chapbooks

A friend of mine sent me this earlier this summer, but as it's summer it got lost in the shuffle of the season. It's still valid and still true Poetry Pamphlets by John Greening.

quote from The Razor's Edge by Maugham

I am not the greatest fan of W Somerset Maugham but I was speed reading The Razor's Edge and found this wonderful quote (it rings so so true)

"I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it,
and it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."
page 282

exactly. Bingo. Perfect.

from NPR - Book Business beyond Borders

interesting view of language, courtesy of the NY Times

Poetry, Medium and Message