January 2011
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WatchThe Rude Pundit’s Almanack is for sale at www.orbooks.com! Read an excerpt, view some illustrations, and see for yourself what all the fuss is about.
YOU’LL LAUGH • YOU’LL CRY • YOU’LL GET NAUSEATED • YOU’LL GET AROUSED • AND IT’S (almost) ALL TRUE featuring charming anecdotes, twisted poems, gonzo reportage, tragic photographs, meaningless charts, Founding Fathers in compromising...
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“A twisted love triangle involving a straitlaced doctor, a woman with a dark...”
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O Magazine declares Lisa Dierbeck’s The Autobiography of Jenny X one of 15 books to watch for in February 2011.
Read an excerpt on Google Books.
Other people are saying:
Fast-paced, psychologically taut…beguiling…sly and sharp.” —New York Observer
“A tale of secrets and lies unraveled…a...
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“I own SavePublishing.com (that I haven’t been able to figure out what to do with...”
– Ftrain.com
We hear you, Paul.
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After Tunisia: Raja Shehadeh on Palestine | The... →
Raja Shehadeh, author of our upcoming title, A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle, weighs in on the political uprisings underway in Tunisia and Egypt in today’s Guardian. As he looks on at the demonstrations with renewed optimism, he can’t help but remember his involvement with the first Palestinian intifada, and its failure to produce “the first truly democratic Arab...
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“Around 1994, I was on a panel with Ian Ballantine and I asked him what he...”
– Gordan Van Gelder talks about the future of publishing on SFSignal.com. Read the read rest here.
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WatchAs a follow-up to the smash hit he had with the first #pdfleaks conference, Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency author Micah L. Sifry hosted PdfLeaks II last night to talk about ‘Anonymous’ and whether they’re a source for social justice or a plague on internet freedom.
Their first conference has been livestreamed about 75,000 times. Those are basically Kanye-level numbers,...
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E-Books and Independent Bookstores: Did you know... →
Here’s something we’ve been thinking about a lot lately: e-books and independent bookstores. In December, we announced an awesome partnership with one of our favorite places in New York, St. Mark’s Bookstore, to continue exploring new territory in book sales. It seemed like a no-brainer: if we wanted them to sell our books in their store, why wouldn’t we want them to sell...
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WatchCheck out the WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE trailer. Watch more trailers on our Vimeo channel: OR Books TV
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io9 shows some love for WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE →
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WatchWatch Eileen Myles jam for a Teleportal Readings video shot in collaboration with Rattapallax and the Bowery Poetry Club.
Eileen’s newest book, INFERNO (A POET’S NOVEL), is only at www.orbooks.com!
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WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
Check out all the latest on Micah L. Sifry’s forthcoming book WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency at http://thewikileaksbook.com/ or follow @wikileaksbook on Twitter.
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“I think this book, Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by...”
– David Wilk interviews Douglas Rushkoff about Program or be Programmed, where he argues we must direct digital media or we will be directed by those who create it.
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WatchOR Books throws excellent parties. If you couldn’t make it to the Rich People Party in December, you can at least bask in the warm glow of the wealthy while Chris Lehmann, Tom Frank, and Moe Tkacik talk about Chris Lehmann’s book RICH PEOPLE THINGS.
Watch more OR videos on our vimeo channel, OR Books TV.
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