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July 2, 2021

REVIEW: Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old by Steven Petrow

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsage / autobiography / family relationships / non-fiction / older / parents8 Comments

Soon after his 50th birthday, Petrow began assembling a list of “things I won’t do when I get old”—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then 70-something year old parents were doing wrong. That list, which included “You won’t have to shout at me that I’m deaf,” ... more >

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July 25, 2017

Tuesday News: OJ book?, Snopes in trouble, Comic-Con, and dissing older women

JanetPublishing Newsage / book contracts / Comic-Con / cosplay / double-standards / O.J. Simpson / Snopes / Wonder Woman1 Comments

O.J. Simpson too toxic for a book deal . . . major publishers say – I know, I know. Just get all the lols out and then check this out. Publishers who, for example, were ready to publish Milo Yiannopoulos, won’t touch O.J. Simpson’s potential manuscript. OMG I cannot even ... more >

November 24, 2015

Tuesday News: small press success, artistic freedom online, age and sex, and Star Wars spoilers

JanetPublishing Newsage / digital publishing / independent presses / Laura Ingalls Wilder / music publishing / social media / spoilers / Star Wars16 Comments

Surprise Laura Ingalls Wilder Bestseller Transforms a Small Press – This story is really about the success of two things: South Dakota Historical Society Press and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography. I’m actually not surprised at the success of Wilder’s book, but the impact of its success on this small publisher is ... more >

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May 18, 2015

Monday News: Ageism and gendered rage, beauty and the male gaze, social media’s danger to women, and the feminization of domestic fiction

JanetPublishing Newsage / anger / beauty / domestic fiction / feminism / gender / patriarchy / privacy / social media / social privilege8 Comments

The insults of age: A one-woman assault on condescension – After crawling out of the hole I’ve been working in for the past week, I found link to this story on Twitter from Kat (Book Thingo), which led to a long discussion about ageism, cultural privilege, and the limits of ... more >

January 8, 2015

Thursday News: on the contemplation of women, genre fiction, and life in general

JanetPublishing Newsage / diversity / Fantasy / gender / genre critique / Haruki Murakami / Romance / scholarship2 Comments

Yet More on Female Characters in Fantasy – Rhiannon Thomas responds to Robin Hobb’s Facebook post on female characters in fantasy. Hobbs argues, among other things, that “I do not feel that gender defines a person any more than height does. Or shoe size. It’s one facet of a character. ... more >

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