More on Cultural Finance

I received an interesting response to my posting on SellaBand from someone who works for a related service, Slicethepie. Turns out Slicethepie has implemented some of the ideas I mentioned in my previous post. Slicethepie “is a financing platform for the music industry that enables new and established Artists to raise money directly from Music … Continue reading More on Cultural Finance

9 99 Boycott

Imagine my surprise when I visited Amazon’s page for the Kindle edition of Pop Apocalypse and saw that it had been marked with a tag called “9 99 boycott.” I initially thought that an uprising of angry readers had for reasons inscrutable to me decided to boycott my book — what a great and unexpected … Continue reading 9 99 Boycott

Infinite Summer

For those who haven’t already heard, allow me to direct your attention to the launching post of Infinite Summer, an organized effort to read through Infinite Jest this summer, endnotes and all. The irony for me is that I’m too bogged down finishing a dissertation chapter about Wallace (and Dave Eggers) to participate. Maybe after … Continue reading Infinite Summer

Starting Summer

I’m back from a trip to Seattle and Portland where I did readings at Elliott Bay and Powell’s (on Hawthorne). These were great fun, the bookstores both awesome, and they drew my biggest crowds yet — not huge, but respectable, in the (very) low double digits. It’s kind of neat that people who’ve presumably never … Continue reading Starting Summer