Rabe Against the Machine
"Everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food. Therefore, everybody is in the market. Therefore, you can make people buy broccoli." -- Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court during the Court's hearings o...
Blurb Rules
A guide to the art and artifice of writing blurbs for books.
1. Use "I should have known" at the start of any quote you decide to give. As in "I should have known Meghan Askew would write the best vampire-leprechaun novel of the de...
A Whole Lot of Nothing
Forget about the Big Bang. Why would there be anything to bang at all?
The Slow and Mindful Reader
"[The Slow Movement] ... emphasizes slowness in the creation and consumption of products as a corrective to the frenetic pace of 21st-century life."--The New York Times
Don’t rush into it, but we hope you’ll join us at The Snail's Pa...
Flap Rules
(A brief guide to writing the book descriptions that fill the space where if you were to take the jacket off the book and lay it out flat with the outside of the jacket down it would be the part that is farthest to the left, unless the book is in Hebre...
Press Release
Today, I am announcing that Gabriel (Gabby) Rafsonmunjon, Publisher of Narhwal Books, will be leaving the company on June 30th to devote more time to covert data mining and developing his electronic punctuation headband. Gab...
Fate, Time, and Language
An early
work of bold philosophical inquiry by the celebrated novelist sheds light on a
literary mind in the making.
Valedictory
The Department of Homeland Humor Security has asked us to discontinue Grin &
Tonic. We ourselves don't quite know why. All they said to us was "Please
stop--you're killing us!" We ourselves also have recognized that there is no way
a humor featu...
Warning
Do not take Zazix if you are nursing, pregnant, or planning to become pregnant, or if you are a man experiencing hysterical pregnancy or planning to become hysterically pregnant. People who are taking certain other medications should not take Zazix....
June Weddings — III
(After the New York Times) &nbs...
June Weddings — II
(After the New York Times) &nb...
June Weddings — I
(After the New York Times) &nbs...
