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YouTube, Downfall parodies, and me

Thursday, May 6, 2010

13653 CommentsYouTube%2C+Downfall+parodies%2C+and+me2010-05-06+20%3A27%3A30Michael

If you’re reading this, you doubtless know about the “Downfall meme”—a running joke on the internet where a segment of the 2004 movie “Downfall” is used to express real or feigned outrage at something important or not so. Bruno Ganz, playing an embunkered Adolf Hitler, freaks out at his generals not over the conduct of [...]

Jason Epstein on the Future of Publishing

Thursday, February 25, 2010

11640 Comments2010-02-25+19%3A56%3A36Michael

Former Random honcho and current publishing entrepreneur Jason Epstein has some interesting musings on the future of publishing, courtesy of The New York Review of Books. Here’s a video of Epstein’s neato print-on-demand device, the Espresso Book Machine.

How to fix Playboy–and magazines in general

Friday, January 16, 2009

9842 Comments2009-01-17+03%3A04%3A00Michael

I happened across this excellent article from Salon, written upon the ascension of James Kaminsky to the editorship of Playboy in 2002. It’s right on the money, as far as–what the best magazines used to be; –why that worked for them, artistically AND financially;–why they changed to what they are now;–and why that destroys them, [...]

This just in: Stephen Colbert has a pair

Monday, May 1, 2006

6750 Comments2006-05-02+01%3A43%3A00Michael

As many of you know, I spent much of my twenties trying to get things that were actually funny broadcast on television and published in magazines. This is relatively impossible when you’re dealing with a large-scale outlet like The New Yorker (for which Jon and I wrote pieces) or SNL (for which Jon and I [...]

Everyone Who’s Anyone…

Wednesday, October 9, 2002

480 CommentsEveryone+Who%27s+Anyone...2002-10-09+15%3A59%3A00Michael

I know, I know, I should be working, but I stumbled across this website and had to pass it along. Along with being a useful who’s who, it’s a monument to the misery that is publishing. Note how the process seems to be set up to generate guilt on the one side and rage on [...]

Barry News from Britain, and other publishing crap

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

460 Comments2002-10-08+22%3A51%3A00Michael

[/caption] First of all, sales for Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody continue to climb; the book’s still at #10 in the London Sunday Times HB fiction list. The redoubtable Simon also tells me that we’re going back for a five-figure reprint (#3), so Kate and I are flying high. I was surprised to see [...]

“Evocative.” “Compelling.”

Friday, October 4, 2002

390 Comments%22Evocative.%22+%22Compelling.%222002-10-04+16%3A14%3A00Michael

Literary curmudgeons such as myself might enjoy this interview with gadfly B.R. Myers, who thinks insider authors like DeLillo, Proulx, Auster and the like are relentlessly-hyped frauds. Agree or disagree, but anybody who’s passed through the attitudinal realms of NY publishing will recognize he’s on to something.

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Posts Tagged with "slagging big publishing"

YouTube, Downfall parodies, and me

Jason Epstein on the Future of Publishing

How to fix Playboy–and magazines in general

This just in: Stephen Colbert has a pair

Everyone Who’s Anyone…

Barry News from Britain, and other publishing crap

“Evocative.” “Compelling.”

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