Why Publishers Don't Like Apps →
I hated every moment of our experiment with apps, because it tried to impose something closed, old, and printlike on something open, new, and digital.
- Jason Pontin
It’s rare that I appreciate a recycled cliche, but somehow this works for me. Although I might prefer the version I heard on World Cafe.
Books don’t win because of flash. They win because they’re readable. It’s the words that provide the excitement. Anything that gets in the way is going by the wayside.
In the age of blogging, every student should take an introductory class in journalism, so they know how to ask questions, and to tell a story, and the importance of disclosure. With everyone writing publicly, it would be great if an education included some practice at doing this well.
You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next
(Source: daringfireball.net)
This may be my favorite quote, today, about Maurice Sendak:
if his ideas about children wore controversial, his attitudes about their parents were unrepeatable.
Hearing and reading old interviews with Maurice Sendak today, I think he had the knack for “reading” each audience and speaking to it.
I read about Maurice Sendak’s dysfunctional family, his parents to whom he never “came out”. His parents, who lost all their kin in The Holocaust. I think about our species, capable of systematic, soul-deadening atrocity. Together, they produced this man who pronounced himself too fucked up to raise children, who never stopped being angry.
Who wrote children’s books. I pull those books
And I feel a little hope.
- Mykl
