This week on Media Hacks we talk about the new iPhone, the next level of mobile, and … yep … Twitter, Iran, and the characteristics of the reach of microblogging.
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One of the reasons I started LibriVox, I think, was so that I could make an audio recording of “The Dead,” by James Joyce, from his collection Dubliners.
It is a story of such grace and skill; the build up slow and good-humoured and banal, but when that last section finally comes, it contains so much [...]
From the Free Library of Philadelphia:
Over the span of more than four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work consisting of novels, short stories, criticism, plays, and poetry. Not a year has gone by since the mid-1960’s in which she has not published at least one book. Among her many distinctions, [...]
ARN’s Book Show:
AS Byatt’s The Children’s Book We speak to British author Antonia.S.Byatt about her new novel The Children’s Book. It’s about a famous writer who is writing a private book for each of her children. It deals with childhood and family secrets, against the backdrop of the Edwardian world with the First World War [...]
More from Australia with one of its most elegant and insightful writers, David Malouf. As “The Weekend Australian” declaimed -”An understated man, Australia’s finest writer.”
>Listen here.
This week: Author Jay McInerney discusses his new short story collection; Motoko Rich has Notes From the Field; Joe Queenan discusses life in the Philadelphia projects; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
>Listen here.
Seth Harwood took his literary career into his own hands, offered his novel Jack Wakes Up as a podcast. Random House just picked it up. Here he talks about what he did:
[via OpenCulture.com]
The University of Toronto’s School of Information Studies has a podcast/public lecture series on “on book history, the Internet and everything else in the field of Information.”
Recent episodes include:
Paul Nelles on “Books, Communication and Exchange: The Frankfurt Book Fair and Early Modern Print Culture”
David Weinberger on “Knowledge at the End of the Information Age”
link: http://podcasts.ischool.utoronto.ca/
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Here is Media Hacks #7, about where the bucks are or aren’t in online advertising.
This episode, an intimate trio performs for your pleasure: C.C. Chapman, Mitch Joel and me.
LISTEN HERE: Media Hacks: Episode 6.
Or: Mp3 download.
The National Film Board of Canada (fairly) recently launched their revamped nfb.ca, with reams of full length films from their collection of ground-breaking documentaries, animation, shorts and other experiments.
Ladies and Gentlement, Mr. Leonard Cohen is a 44-minute documentary, about the pre-rock star Leonard Cohen, poet, novelist, and “very confident young man.”
I’ve heard his [...]
