tim_laq on Twitter- tim_laq: I did not submit a #4c13 proposal today and it felt good.
- tim_laq: RT @peterses: Goodbye #vast266
- tim_laq: brilliant 1974 article on writer's block that I dug up on google scholar: http://t.co/T4Xuxu8E #fycchat #writing #lolz
- tim_laq: I'm in the first row for the Biden lecture. Does that mean I have to act like a fanboy for the tv cameras?
- tim_laq: RT @rikhunter: Less than 3 weeks until @Ride2CW at @NCSU. Please support GRN travel grants by donating! http://t.co/ko1f5TGG #cwcon #air ...
Author Archives: laquintt
Rants Cont.
Here is a rant from Tom Robbins about people having the ability to publish books. He made it in response to a NYT article about young adults who self-published after finishing manuscripts: “What’s next?” asked the novelist Tom Robbins. “Kiddie … Continue reading
Fun with #4c12 Word Clouds
I budgeted 20 min to play around with the conference program and create word clouds. I was most interested in the information technologies section. This word cloud represents all of the text from the abstracts available online for every session … Continue reading
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Everyone Has a Book in Them. That’s Probably a Good Thing for Books.
GalleyCat has an image up of lighters that were distributed at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party with a quotation from Christopher Hitchens: ““Everyone has a book inside them, which is exactly where I think it should, in most cases, remain.” … Continue reading
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Video Resources From the Prelinger Archives
I had my students blog about videos they found in the Prelinger archive about writing technologies, print culture, etc. Below are some links to some of what they found. Writing and Reading Technologies Remington Typewriter Commercial (1958) Secretary’s Day (1947, interesting … Continue reading
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Some Background to the Self-Publishing Debates & Moving Beyond “Self-Publishing”
As Ewan Morrison reminded me, most articles about self-publishing are almost too melodramatic to be productive. I’ve been doing some historical work on self-publishing, and I’ve noticed how many of the same complaints and issues recur over the last 130 years … Continue reading
Mass Literacy and the Death of Writing
This is a quotation from William Jackson Lord’s 1962 book How Authors Make a Living. The book is incredibly difficult to find. I am sharing these paragraphs because 1) they tickled me; 2) the exact same arguments are constantly recycled in … Continue reading
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Priceless
I’m doing some research at the moment on publishing and the history of publishing scams. Today I was reading an 1887 text from England called The Grievances between Authors and Publishers, a Report of the Conferences of the Incorporated Society … Continue reading
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Trip Report
I wrote a review of a seminar I attended on composition research methods at Dartmouth this summer. It is posted at the Scholar Electric, the blog of the Computers and Composition Digital Press. Cliff Notes of the post: It is … Continue reading
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More Reflections on Digital Authorship after #CWCON
As Alex Reid points out, Computers and Writing provided a reminder that scholarly presses continue to cope with declining monograph sales. In the scholarly press roundtable, the editor of the University of Michigan Press gave the often noted statistic that … Continue reading
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