September 29, 2006 – 4:51 pm
MFA candidates spend months fretting over their MFA thesis shows–not just what pieces to include, but which frames to use, who to invite, how many appetizers to serve. And then, before you can say “pass the two-buck Chuck,” the party’s over and the exhibition packed up. Painter Matthew Ballou had a better idea. He made [...]
September 28, 2006 – 5:48 pm
How long does a book take? 20 days, 3,650 days, or one day? Depends who the author is. At one extreme is Jack Kerouac, who famously dashed off On the Road in a 20-day, pharmaceutically-assisted frenzy – though editors everywhere breathed a sigh of job security relief that the manuscript showed signs of extensive edits [...]
September 27, 2006 – 1:21 pm
You read it here first. Our new BookSmart blog-to-book beta program is live. A select number of Six Apart TypePad bloggers are now testing a blog beta that allows them to convert their blogs into bookstore-quality books automatically. Yes, you read it correctly … automatically. Our new Blog Slurper lets bloggers choose how they want [...]
September 26, 2006 – 11:38 am
Love Blurb? Care about the future of books? Then please take a few minutes to vote us into the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. This year, SXSW is asking for feedback on which panel proposals should make the cut for the March 2007 event, described on their Web site as “ground zero for the world’s [...]
