Comments on: Roundup: Money Changes Everything http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2008/05/30/1115/ Arts and Culture for North Texas and Far Beyond Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:48:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris Culak http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2008/05/30/1115/#comment-1377 Chris Culak Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:39:05 +0000 http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=1115#comment-1377 Sorry, forgot, way to go Perot Family!!!!! Sorry, forgot, way to go Perot Family!!!!!

]]> By: Chris Culak http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2008/05/30/1115/#comment-1376 Chris Culak Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:37:47 +0000 http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=1115#comment-1376 Manny, Sitting in a Irish Pub on Printer's Row in Chicago having a beer, "waiting for the rain to stop...." I would love to see in Dallas what I partcipated in Chicago yesterday, an outside street book fair. Can you picture Deep Ellum having a book fair of local, regional and national book chains, publishers, and universities etc, on a nice spring or fall weekend? As a pro writter and critic, this is right up your alley. Sorry I have to go, just got another beer, and it is hard to type, read and drink at the same time. Manny,

Sitting in a Irish Pub on Printer’s Row in Chicago having a beer, “waiting for the rain to stop….” I would love to see in Dallas what I partcipated in Chicago yesterday, an outside street book fair. Can you picture Deep Ellum having a book fair of local, regional and national book chains, publishers, and universities etc, on a nice spring or fall weekend?

As a pro writter and critic, this is right up your alley. Sorry I have to go, just got another beer, and it is hard to type, read and drink at the same time.

]]> By: Tom Hendricks http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2008/05/30/1115/#comment-1321 Tom Hendricks Sat, 31 May 2008 14:58:15 +0000 http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=1115#comment-1321 DMN's book coverage is poor and disappointing. What you won't see is any mention of the thousands and thousands of zines, a new type of literature. It's publishing made possible by the desktop publishing explosion of the last two decades. And it is the bulk of publishing in the US. DMN never mentions it! It is like it was 1970 and a daily newspaper never talked about rock and roll! Dallas is even the home of the worldwide Zine Hall of Fame. Yes there's a hall of fame and we have yet to have any real coverage of zines at all. There is also little to no coverage of local writers. And of course no coverage of anything new. We're left with novel reviews - the cutting edge of 1851 - and political tomes - padded essays at ridiculous prices, and a few university press titles. We never have any tough coverage of the publishing industry, nothing about it's waste, excess cost to the consumer, or how bad mainstream literature is now. I cannot trust DMN on any aspect of publishing coverage. DMN’s book coverage is poor and disappointing. What you won’t see is any mention of the thousands and thousands of zines, a new type of literature.
It’s publishing made possible by the desktop publishing explosion of the last two decades. And it is the bulk of publishing in the US. DMN never mentions it! It is like it was 1970 and a daily newspaper never talked about rock and roll! Dallas is even the home of the worldwide Zine Hall of Fame. Yes there’s a hall of fame and we have yet to have any real coverage of zines at all.
There is also little to no coverage of local writers. And of course no coverage of anything new.
We’re left with novel reviews – the cutting edge of 1851 – and political tomes – padded essays at ridiculous prices, and a few university press titles.
We never have any tough coverage of the publishing industry, nothing about it’s waste, excess cost to the consumer, or how bad mainstream literature is now.
I cannot trust DMN on any aspect of publishing coverage.

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