It's a slow, slow time in publishing. Everyone is on vacation, and the literary brains are shutting down. The buzz of the moment isn't Rushdie or . No, it seems like all anyone can manage to talk about is Christopher Ciccone's book Life with My Sister Madonna.And who am I to fight the tide? Here's … Continue reading Like the Salivating Dogs You Are
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Attention Span
Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning show is talking with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. She worries that computers and cell phones and multitasking are making us unable to concentrate on... um... right, the world around us. For the record, Maggie Jackson was in our store in June. … Continue reading Attention Span
Is This the Hottest Artist in the World?
The identity of the graffiti artist known only as Banksy has long been a mystery. Even as his art, which appears unexpectedly overnight, has become more and more collectible and valued.Now the Mail on Sunday newspaper claims that Banksy is in fact Robin Gunningham, whom the British media constantly refer to as a "nice middle-class … Continue reading Is This the Hottest Artist in the World?
Musings from Magers and Quinn 