Ana Marie: “Examine some corn” is probably not one of those things that appear on the president’s daily schedule. But it is like holding a baby. You have to feign interest in a similar way.
Jason: “Oh, hey. Let me hold that for you.”
Ana Marie: “Yup. Corn. That’s what we have here.”
Jason: “I’m gonna want to remember that day I held some corn, for some reason.”
“Congratulations on your first novel, which will be as memorable as what I heard you read from your memoir at ___________ over a year ago. Do the best job you can with it and try to avoid as many of the pitfalls I have seen from mainstream literary writers who think they can write SF well.”
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In which I find a listicle I was willing to write, for The Awl.
Here’s my first tip: Don’t build an app.
“Sexy Werner Herzog” and nine other not-at-all offensive Halloween costumes for the ladies.
Today, tomorrow, for the next while, people are going to exhaust themselves as they worry about Lena Dunham’s incredible book deal.
1. This is reality. This is the business. This is not the end of the world. This is is actually just one of many such deals. There will be another and another and…
Here’s a cold, hard truth about publishing: If Dunham’s book meets the promise of her massive advance in terms of sales, then there’s that much more money in the industry to buy other, smaller books with. Literary fiction, criticism, poetry, etc., are financed by the backlist and the blockbusters, so while the chances of *you* getting a $3.5 million advance are very, very slim, every book that sells through its multimillion-dollar advance makes it that much more likely that you can score a reasonable advance for a book. So at the end of the day, being jealous of more successful writers like Dunham, ones who are getting rich in this money-starved game, is to your own detriment.
Someone should write a Harry Potter/Shades of Grey mashup and go to jail forever.
When leading neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander found himself in a 7-week coma in 2008, he experienced things he never thought possible - exclusively excerpted from his upcoming book Proof of Heaven, he shares his journey to the afterlife in this week’s Newsweek. Also, Michael Tomasky previews Thursday’s veep smackdown where Biden will be gunning for the right’s boy wonder and Dan Ephron looks at what an Israeli attack on Iran would mean for the United States.
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- ‘Role’ rather than job. A responsibility that gets passed around rather than one person’s work. Another new use that stops short of having a curator.
- Suggests a sense of collaboration not seen in all new uses.
- Cook refers to “the curator role.” “Product” is added to by the Guardian for clarification.
- Meaning remains unclear. Presume means choosing products to develop and market.
- The article uses the fact the responsibility moved around as a counterpoint to Steve Jobs’ leadership. This use implies the curator-work is powerful.
- Interesting to have this role when considering the Jobs’ quote about how: “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them” (link.) Connects with the idea of the curator as having an innate, impulsive expertise rather than being engaged in a process of research.
