I feel like I have, but I can’t swear to it. This is the result of me wringing out the best of my various pre-andrewjpatrick.com blogs (still out there, under the names Revolutionary Nonsense, and Genre Confusion) and other scribblings into a single collection. I culled it down to the best, and am selling… Read More So Have I Mentioned That I Have a Book Called “Typing Into the Void” Out?
A blogger and essayist named Melissa Camara Wilkins, who writes about her life, family, amusing her children, lack of super-caffeinated tea, etc., has a veritable slew of self-published books on Amazon. Several of them are short essays, one of them is an essay collection. One of them is a collection of posts from her blog.… Read More Are Blog Books a Thing?
Yesterday I mentioned that my Essays page was being discontinued as part of the redesign, and that I would probably publish a book of Essays instead, on my Riposte Publishing imprint. Today, after performing the rote and necessary actions which earn the daily bread, I finally managed to put some work into it. Truth be… Read More Upcoming Book, Or Where My Essays Went
Yesterday I spent with the baby, who is still below that blessed age when she can process what’s on the television, so I can watch whatever I want. What I seemed to want was documentaries. To wit: 1. Absinthe, a film that labored like a stevedore to take away everything bohemian or dangerous about the… Read More Absinthe and Posers
Authors, like teenage girls, hate each other, and while this is mostly banal, expressions of it can occasionally be entertaining in a mindless-drivel kind of way, rather like The Expendables or the upcoming political conventions. I would like to report that the titular letter (via Word and Film), a 1970 bit of flamebait from Burroughs… Read More William S. Burroughs’ Boring, Prophetic Hate Mail to Truman Capote
Please look into my fledgling enterprise here. This will be our first book:
I’ve got something I’m working on, so I’m going to withdraw a bit today. I need to transfer a First Chapter from my Moleskine to Microsoft Word. Details will follow when there are any.
Ripping the newsblogs, and the whole profession of journalism, a new one, with the same joke. My point is that there is nothing wrong with 21st-century journalism except (a) the continued existence of the Columbia Journalism Reviewand (b) the shortage of good, cheap mescaline. And if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. IYKWIMAITYD. Journalists are… Read More Stacy McCain is Funnier Than a Chimp on Phenobarbitols
…and I think I’m about to start the paperwork on making it an LLC. One needs liability protection. The Name: Riposte Publishing The Logo: Eventually, it’s going to need its own web site, which I’ll probably create on WordPress.
I have ambitions beyond this blog, and one of these is to write (another is to start my own Cramps tribute band). I’ve been trying to write since I was 14, and I’ve always been frustrated at the sheer impossibility of making a living at it. The competition daunts the amateur: even if somebody at… Read More Setting up a Publishing House
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