I’ve been flying a lot this week, on a route that GoGo now covers (see map). Each time at the gate, a male-female pair of hip, young marketers (the woman in each case being smarter, hipper, attractive and Indian) offered me and the other lop-sided laptop-bag-toting types in the boarding queue a promotion to get [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Reading’
October 26, 2008
Spaces between words
The good conversations are always the impractical ones, I’ve discovered. Either I do a focussed interview of somebody and I end up with the right quotes and facts in my notebook, ready to write a story. Or I … have fun. The notebook winds up chaotic, but I end up thinking about all sorts of [...]
September 6, 2008
Reading by deleting
In the old days, I would have researched my book by going to a library and pulling journals and books from dusty stacks, then reading them and writing down, on index cards, the passages that I might want to quote, or perhaps photocopying the pages.
These days, I’m finding a lot of journal articles and book [...]
July 27, 2008
The end of book publishing? Part II
I return to one of my threads, which is: What on earth were you smoking, Andreas, when you decided to write … a book?!?
So this is the second in what promises to become a series of occasional musings about the book industry, the first being here. As you can tell, there is an ongoing tug-of-war [...]
