WOW
November 11th, 2005
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A happy day when you get a book hand delivered. Christine Sismondo’s Mondo Cocktail is just out and it looks grand. I am looking forward to reading and reviewing it.
But the wow is on page 117 where Christine is talking about New Orleans she actually has a couple of grafs on the New Orleans hurricane disaster. Which, in a printed book, is astonishing. It was only two months ago. Astonishing.
There’s a nice little piece in Slate about Penguin books which is well worth reading (http://www.slate.com/id/2129497/entry/2129501/). It makes the point that during the middle part of the 20th century, Penguin’s line of topical, political books were going “from manuscript to shelf in four weeks, something no American publisher seems capable of doing with topical books today”. Which I guess is why we have the net…