Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

Sep 27, 2009 by donny

• RT @Gollancz: Graham Joyce, man of many writerly talents (and not bad in goal either) gets his just rewards http://bit.ly/zKsa5 #
• RT @globebooks: The Lost Symbol, in about 500 hilarious words http://tinyurl.com/l4us48 #
• RT @donnyyap: RT @globebooks: British Giller judge makes light of Canadian fiction http://tinyurl.com/natmkn #
• RT @drmabuse: Oh no. Diablo Cody to adapt Sweet Valley High. http://bit.ly/JBSDG #
• RT @donnyyap: It's getting extremely hard not to feel anything when GRRM isn't really prioritizing to get Dance out. #asoiaf #
• RT @sharonbakar: RT @guardianbooks: Gabriel García Márquez masterpiece tops poll of world literature http://bit.ly/EhsUB #
• RT @bookhugger: John le Carré shares about his life and the experiences that have shaped his many wonderful novels – http://ow.ly/r0jk #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

Sep 20, 2009 by donny

• People, I'm so sorry. Last week was literally hell for me. I've got the show in post-prod now, so be prepared to be pleasantly surprised. #
• RT @RandomDigital: Kindle edition of Dan Brown is outselling print version according to Amazon: http://bit.ly/d2MPT #
• On demand printing like this (http://bit.ly/3mkIg2) will soon be ubiquitous. #

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Poetry Links from Episode 41: Poetry Revisited(Finally!)

Sep 18, 2009 by donny

Ok, I’ve finally gotten to them.  They have been lying on my drive for quite a while now, but I’ve managed to get them out from Skype chat notes to the form you see below, which takes a fair amount of time.

Better late than never, so here they are: the Show Notes to our longest, most passionate show on poems to date! 🙂

I’ll update the show notes both on the pages here on Bookbabble.net, as well as the show notes on the podcast host, Mevio.com.

Poems Mentioned in show:

• Into Mexico, Mona Van Duyn
• Homo Will Not Inherit, Mark Doty
• Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer
• Michael Strunge
• Ode on a Grecian Urn, George Keats

• somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond, by E. E. Cummings
• Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep A Gun In The House, Billy Collins
• A Cloud in Trousers, Vladimir Mayakovsky
• Howl, Allen Ginsburg (Interesting history on this poem in this article).
• Todesfuge [Fugue of Death], Paul Celan
• Dream Song 41: If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert) by John Berryman
• Dream Song 29: There sat down, once, a thing by John Berryman
• Dream Song 74: Henry hates the world. What the world to Henry by John Berryman
• Dream Song 1: Huffy Henry hid the day by John Berryman
• Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring by John Berryman
• Dolphin, Robert Lowell
• Lady Lazarus, Slyvia Plath
• Lost in Translation, by James Merrill
• The World and The Child, by James Merrill
• Resume, Dorothy Parker

Mentioned in show:

• Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
• Edward Lear Home Page
• Søren Ulrik Thomsen, and here

• Jens August Schade
• Vladimir Mayakovsky
• Lone Hørslev (Danish)
• Paul Celan (Amazon link)
• Nils Ferlin*
• Michael Strunge
• Mark Strand (Amazon link)
• Brad Leithauser (Darlintong’s Fall, Novel in Verse – Amazon link, nybooks.com link)
• Delmore Schwartz (Amazon link and link)

 

* Bjorn’s Translation of Nils Ferlin’s ‘I folkviseton’ poem (as a contrast to the translation as it appears here):

My heart, I said, it was thine;
Thy heart, you said, it was mine
And you said you liked the couplet
Where your tears were mine when you wept
So these were the rhymes we made
Then you married sensibly
I get royalties each time it’s played
And nothing has changed for me

Liam’s Favourite Poets:

• Ferenc Juhasz (Hung.)
• Tennyson
• Emily Dickinson
• Yeats
• Boleslaw Lesmian (Poland)
• Seamus Heaney
• Jack Clemo (Cornwall)

 

Links:

• Success Diva’s Blog

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Bookbabble Episode 45: Hanging out with Glenda Larke

Sep 16, 2009 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 45: Hanging out with Glenda Larke

Recorded 6 Sept 2009
Babblers: Lars, Bjorn, Marcel and Donny with fantasy novelist Glenda Larke

Synopsis:
This week, we speak with the delightful and incredibly friendly Glenda Larke, an Australian fantasy novelist living in Malaysia. In addition to talking about her work and interests, Glenda shares her thoughts on genre fiction in general, the Google Book settlement and books made available electronically. Plus, bird-watching, and Bjorn’s band!

If you’ve not checked out Glenda’s work yet, what are you waiting for?

 

Show Length: 1:18:35 mins

 

Check out Glenda Larke online:

• Official website
• Glenda’s Blog
• Glenda’s Facebook page
• The Last Stormlord online – from HarperCollins, for a limited time only!
• The Last Stormlord, book one of Watergivers, will be available in Australia in September 2009 from Harper Voyager, and in the USA and UK in March 2010 from Orbit.

 

 

 

Books Mentioned:

• Heart of the Mirage (Book 1 of the Mirage Makers), Glenda Larke (2006 Aurealis Awards for Fantasy and Science Fiction
  Shortlisted – Best Fantasy Novel)
• Berryman’s Henry: Living at the Intersection of Need and Art (Costerus NS 158), Samuel Fisher Dodson
• How to Be Happy Though Married, Tim LaHaye

 

 

 

Links:

• Book and Reader Forum thread – Left Behind (The Series)by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins.
• An author’s guide to the Google Books flap
• Authors Guild: $125 Million Settlement in Authors Guild v. Google – A message from Roy Blount Jr.
• Shigekuni: Gung Ho: Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother”

 

[audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/17719/episodes/180101/bookbabbletheshow-180101-09-17-2009.mp3]

 

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

Sep 13, 2009 by donny

• Just finished chit-chatting with Glenda Larke for Bookbabble! Thrilled! 🙂 #
• RT @PD_Smith: Japanese publisher East Press has sold 45,000 copies of the manga version of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf http://bit.ly/g79U4 #

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