“It’s clear now that wild populations will increasingly be exposed to the vagaries of a globalized farmed fish sector. Nevertheless we may still have time to keep the farmed food and the wild food separate. For the sake of both, it might be worth trying.”
—Paul Greenberg on “How to Fix Fish Farms” in Salon
October 2011
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Congrats to Robin Oliveira, whose book My Name is Mary Sutter received the 2011 Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction from Gettysburg College!
Time Management in the Age of Twitter →
nasw.org
Do you Tweet to live, or live to Tweet? As part of a panel hosted by the National Association of Science Writers, Deborah Blum offered time-management tips for the hyper-connected.
“The Postmistress began with an image that flashed into my head one day of a woman in a post office sorting the mail: she looks down at the envelope in her hand, looks up to see if anyone is watching, and then slides the envelope into her pocket. I was interested in trying to write a war novel that took place off the battlefield, in the lives of ordinary women, and in particular I wanted to tell a story in which the effects of war are seen in how these characters come to understand their relation to the truth and to what is right. A postmaster who doesn’t deliver a letter, a war reporter who can’t report a story — these two characters evolved out of the combination of that initial image and the desire to tell a different kind of war story.”
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Sarah Blake discusses her novel The Postmistress with The Huffington Post
Mr. Fox is a New York Times' Editors' Choice
Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel is available wherever books are sold. “This playful tale is presented in the alternating voices of a slasher novelist and his muse, who is much more interested in human connection pre-death” (The New York Times).
"The Worst Business in the World" →
laphamsquarterly.org
In this blog post for Lapham’s Quarterly, Ben Tarnoff chronicles the “doomsaying” that’s plagued the publishing industry for centuries.
"Is there a fish I can eat guilt free?" →
nytimes.com
Paul Greenberg says YES, to Bristol Bay salmon. The most compelling reason to pick this fish? Just buying it, may help save it.
Denis Carrier
“I’d had the bones of the plot for Cemetery Girl in my head for a year when Chris suggested I re-imagine it as a graphic novel. Suddenly, the project made a lot more sense.”
—Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series that inspired HBO’s “True Blood,” who has signed on to co-author a graphic novel trilogy with fantasy writer Christopher Golden and illustrator Don Kramer. The first book, Cemetery Girl, will be released by Ace Books in May 2013.
Happy Birthday, iPod! →
nytimes.com
It’s been ten years since the iPod debuted and changed the way we listen to music. In this piece in Sunday’s New York Times, Daniel J. Levitin reflects on the gadget’s effects on our ears, our moods, and the music industry.
“Hendley’s humanitarian work in Africa (and Haiti, where he headed after the 2010 earthquake) is inspiring, especially considering how many lives he has influenced despite how little he knew about water problems before he started. At the core, however, is the story of Hendley himself: a coming-of- age tale about a young man who as a teen rebelled against his ‘preacher man’ dad to become ‘the life of the party’ only to figure out that he ‘didn’t have to be a perfect do-gooder to actually do some good in this world.’”
—Publishers Weekly on Doc Hendley’s forthcoming book Wine to Water (January 2012)
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KUOW Seattle just re-aired their conversation with Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. We agree - it’s definitely worth a second listen!
“What we think of as an American story is more about the fantasies we want to see rather than our histories.”
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Junot Diaz, The New Yorker
Diaz (along with panelists Jenifer Egan and Yiyun Li) spoke at this past weekend’s New Yorker Festival on “How to Write About America.”
