readings/events re Taipei
6.17 Seattle WA—Elliott Bay Book Company, 7PM, reading/Q&A
6.18 Portland OR—Powell’s, 7PM, reading/Q&A
6.19 San Francisco CA—Booksmith, 7:30PM conversation with Jesse Nathan (McSweeney’s)
6.20 Los Angeles CA—Skylight Books, 7:30PM reading/Q&A
6.24 Houston TX—Brazos Bookstore, 7PM reading/Q&A
6.25 Austin TX—BookPeople, 7PM reading/Q&A
6.26 St. Paul MN—Common Good Books, 7PM reading/Q&A, conversation with Jay Gabler (The Tangential)
6.27 Manhattan NY—McNally Jackson, 7PM conversation with Christian Lorentzen (London Review of Books)
7.09 Brooklyn NY—Spoonbill & Sugartown, reading/Q&A
7.22 Brooklyn NY—BookCourt, panel with Marie Calloway, Ryan McNamara, [TK], moderated by Mike Vilensky (WSJ)
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Sarah Weinman (~190k followers on Twitter) is Publishers Marketplace’s news editor. I don’t know what the first sentence of her tweet references. I think many who read it will passively decide to avoid my books (understandably, I feel, given the information’s source and that it’s stated like common knowledge) and view me as distrustful.
Earlier I was thinking: What if I had kids to support? What if something happens to someone in my family resulting in huge medical bills? What if, due to intermittent libel the next fifteen years, I’m unable, for example, to financially support my parents, or my own family? I’d probably feel very angry toward Sarah Weinman’s tweet, which seems 100% untrue and, if unchallenged, will probably negatively affect (1) my long-term financial situation (2) the level of equality/”fairness” in the world.
Based on what I know about her I think Sarah Weinman (like me and most people I know in publishing) probably would support greater equality/”fairness” in the world.
I feel like I’ve read so much libel (false, unsupported statements that damage an individual’s reputation or financial status) recently, almost exclusively by those in positions of greater power and influence than their targets, that I want to discuss this specific instance with Sarah Weinman in like a Gmail chat, or at least “call her out” on it.
As news editor of “the trade’s biggest newsletter/website” her tweet is maybe equivalent to a New York Times article that reads in entirety: “The restaurant Pure Food and Wine has been running a long con for years. So of course you’d be upset if you ate dinner there. [link to review by someone who disliked the restaurant].”
Go here if you want to raise awareness on this and maybe influence Sarah Weinman into an earnest discussion with me about her tweet.
An effect of top-down libel is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, I think. Based on what I’ve read by her I think Sarah Weinman would not support that.
Relevant links: previous fact-checking post](http://25.media.tumblr.com/0c53619ec55a3de54a795879313295a8/tumblr_mol4yzLUCH1qzo3vco1_400.png)
Sarah Weinman (~190k followers on Twitter) is Publishers Marketplace’s news editor. I don’t know what the first sentence of her tweet references. I think many who read it will passively decide to avoid my books (understandably, I feel, given the information’s source and that it’s stated like common knowledge) and view me as distrustful.
Earlier I was thinking: What if I had kids to support? What if something happens to someone in my family resulting in huge medical bills? What if, due to intermittent libel the next fifteen years, I’m unable, for example, to financially support my parents, or my own family? I’d probably feel very angry toward Sarah Weinman’s tweet, which seems 100% untrue and, if unchallenged, will probably negatively affect (1) my long-term financial situation (2) the level of equality/”fairness” in the world.
Based on what I know about her I think Sarah Weinman (like me and most people I know in publishing) probably would support greater equality/”fairness” in the world.
I feel like I’ve read so much libel (false, unsupported statements that damage an individual’s reputation or financial status) recently, almost exclusively by those in positions of greater power and influence than their targets, that I want to discuss this specific instance with Sarah Weinman in like a Gmail chat, or at least “call her out” on it.
As news editor of “the trade’s biggest newsletter/website” her tweet is maybe equivalent to a New York Times article that reads in entirety: “The restaurant Pure Food and Wine has been running a long con for years. So of course you’d be upset if you ate dinner there. [link to review by someone who disliked the restaurant].”
Go here if you want to raise awareness on this and maybe influence Sarah Weinman into an earnest discussion with me about her tweet.
An effect of top-down libel is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, I think. Based on what I’ve read by her I think Sarah Weinman would not support that.
Relevant links: previous fact-checking post
(via popserial)
Megan Boyle reading a live blog not live http://bit.ly/11kqNsQ
Q&A with Marie Calloway: Why does she write about sex? - latimes.com→
My interview in the LA Times.
(I was misquoted a bit…)
“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”
Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (via delicateswans)(Source: fatifer, via willisplummer)
“If I could get all the text messages and emails that I will receive during my life right now there would be no more questions and I could move on.”
Brandon Scott Gorrell (via quotecatalog)
The remastered You Ruined It EP is now up at the Young Family site. Dazzleships Records will be releasing it as a limited run of cassette tapes in the next month. Ordering information will be available soon. To celebrate, we will be releasing four new music videos for each of the songs on the album, solicited from some of our favorite artists + humans, in the next several weeks. There will be blood. Some of it might get on you.
“A bone in her opened up, gleaming and pale, and she held it to the light and spoke from it.”
“Willing” from Birds of America by Lorrie Moore(Source: plumpurple)
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in isolation, lurched and spazzed, sent them spinning fizzily back into empty padded corners, disconnected and alone.”
“Willing” from Birds of America by Lorrie Moore(Source: willisplummer)
Tao Lin on The Moola Files (Jim Cramer coverage)
(Source: neatomosquitoshow, via willisplummer)
