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Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Top Gun 2's Opening Weekend
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I have to admit that I was dubious about the commercial prospects of a Top Gun 2 when I first heard that this project was finally and reall...
The Inevitable Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial Piece
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An infographic at the Axios news site recently showed that the "number of social media interactions per published article" regard...
"To Thine Own Self Be True": Reflections on a Famous Phrase
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Recently writing about the advice "Be yourself" I was told by a reader that quite a few people take the line in Hamlet , "To...
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On "Self-Pity"
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Among those words whose usage has seemed to me sloppy and suspect in a nasty sign-of-the-times way, "self-pity" is right up there ...
Austin Powers' 25th Anniversary
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This month was the 25th anniversary of the release of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery in theaters . That anniversary hasn't...
Thursday, May 26, 2022
On the Words "Be Yourself"
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Once upon a time I was teaching a survey course on American Literature from the Civil War to today. As part of a "unit" on natural...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Self-Publishing in the Early 21st Century: The Publishing Revolution That Wasn't
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Self-publishing is no new practice, but about a decade ago it looked as if the advent of e-book readers, Print-On-Demand services, online bo...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
On Publishing: Movies vs. Reality
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Recently I had occasion to remark how authors' biographical blurbs tend to cut out the less glamorous details of authors' pasts--whi...
Monday, May 23, 2022
Researching the Self-Published Fiction Market
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It is an oft-heard refrain these days that the results yielded by search engines are ever more worthless--that regardless of whether it is G...
Friday, May 20, 2022
Remembering
Double Dynamite
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Some years ago I happened on the 1951 film Double Dynamite on TCM. It's one of those films that I find myself surprised to have not hea...
Hans Fallada's
Little Man, What Now?
and Dreiser's
Tragedy
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As I remarked a while back Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Karamazov Brothers is the novel to which I tend to find myself comparing Theodore ...
Hallmark vs. GAC
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These days the entertainment industry's intrigues can seem more interesting than the content it offers up--and one such case is the riva...
The Decline of Hallmark Mysteries?
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The Hallmark Channel is a rare case these days of a media outlet which is successful while being profoundly unfashionable, producing the ext...
The Evolution of the Hallmark Movie Brand
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I have to admit that, from a marketing/pop cultural/zeitgeist standpoint, I find what the Hallmark Channel does fascinating--not least becau...
The Decline of the Thriller: Explanations
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Considering recent bestseller list data it seems plausible that thriller sales have recently been in decline--not only this past year, but t...
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