Milestone’s Timely Return Should Offer Distinguished Competition
“One thing I’ve always loved about the company [is] even the name, Milestone Media. It’s going to be a company that will not just be doing comic books. [We’re] going to be working on a lot of different...
View ArticleFighting Cocks, Dummies, Red Blazers | Soccer Podcast Roundup
Among the many new experiences soccer has introduced me to, like contemplating beer or coffee* during an early Saturday morning Premier League match, podcasts might be the most surprising one. I’ve...
View ArticleOn Llamas, Dresses, Net Neutrality: A Clue(Train)!
For much of my career in publishing, I’ve typically worn two hats and it’s caused some cognitive dissonance and friction as the business hat frequently clashes with the writer hat. The tension of...
View ArticleHow I Could Just Kill a (Virtual) Man
Here’s an example, just a little sample How I could just kill a man! One-time tried to come in my home Take my chrome, I said “Yo, it’s on Take cover son, or you’re ass-out How you like my chrome?”,...
View ArticleWe never look up anymore…
i. Don’t be fooled by the cul de sac the gingerbreading the German engineering you can’t see into empty corners from manicured lawns, intricate patterns cobwebs on ceilings closets bursting discarded...
View ArticleWhy MLS is better* than the Premier League
I’ll say it: Major League Soccer is better* than the Premier League. There are, of course, many caveats to that statement, the most important being the addition of “for me” at the end of it, perhaps...
View ArticleUnpacking Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between The World and Me
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME I first came...
View ArticleFrom Team Library to the Reading Room (My New Gig!)
Four-and-a-half years ago, I joined Team Library with a mission to help bring three strong but neglected print brands into the digital present, and after a rocky first three years of rebuilding...
View ArticleAs Ebook Dust Settles, Publishing’s Future Remains Bright
Not quite six years ago, in the waning moments of the inaugural Digital Book World conference and shadow of the iPad’s disruptive (for all of the wrong reasons) reveal, I offered some closing remarks...
View ArticlePublishing Diversity Games: Catching Fire
‘‘And, for writers who are trying to challenge the pandering of the white gaze, if you have to go through a series of gatekeepers who are uniformly white, you’re going to end up with something that’s’’...
View Article“You Will Be Tokenized” [Go Read This]
“But if people in publishing genuinely believe that books save people’s lives, their output shows they believe only certain lives to be worth the trouble.” “You Will Be Tokenized”: Speaking Out About...
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