Archive for the ‘ self-promotion ’ Category
Years ago I was compelled to join LinkedIn, sometime before Facebook and sometime after MySpace. I never did join MySpace and, feeling like I shouldn’t miss out on the next Big Thing, I accepted a number of people’s connection requests on LinkedIn. I have never been an active user of the site. It seems like [ READ MORE ]
My review of High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbably Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time by Tim Wendel has been published at PopMatters. The argument over which pitcher in US baseball is the “fastest of all time” is a fun one that never ends. Since the radar gun [ READ MORE ]
I had a great time this weekend at the Wayne College Writers Workshop, meeting some cool people including the other presenters. I think the two sessions I gave went well. The students were great and they asked some excellent questions. I’d like to say a big “thank you” to the Dean of Wayne College, John [ READ MORE ]
This coming Saturday, April 17, I will be at the Wayne College Writers Workshop conducting a session on blogging[ READ MORE ]
My post Six Simple Tips for writing a Literary Manifesto is up over the PopMatters Re:Print blog. So you want to write a Literary Manifesto that will make us readers stand up and demand a New Kind of Literature. Here are a few simple tips to help you earn great renown for writing a provocative, [ READ MORE ]
My review of Steve Knopper’s Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age is up over at PopMatters. Through countless interviews with people inside and outside the music industry, he’s able to provide an immense amount of depth and detail. This makes Knopper’s book essential reading if you want [ READ MORE ]
My review of Anna Rubino’s “Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information” is up over at PopMatters. To understand the life and career of Jablonski is to understand how control over oil production in the Middle East slowly shifted from a handful of colluding western oil companies known [ READ MORE ]
Some of you might (though probably most of you don’t) know this, but I will be at the DNC Convention in Denver as a credentialed blogger for MichiganLiberal.com. I’ll be in the Pepsi Center during the speeches and Invesco Field on the last night for Obama’s acceptance speech. Well, according to the DNC credential people, [ READ MORE ]
My review of Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence is up over at PopMatters. Once a torturer confesses to his acts, what is resolved? Can his victims forgive him or find relief? Can the families of dead victims gain anything resembling closure or justice? What responsibility or role should the [ READ MORE ]
I was interviewed last night by the local NBC affiliate WILX 10 for the story, “What If: Did Michigan’s Primary Backfire?” It might have been February 9. Feb. 5 was floated too. It could have been February 26 when Michigan went to the polls. It could have been—but it wasn’t. There is a video of [ READ MORE ]
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