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Wed 22 Mar 2000

• How to measure writers' reputations? By critical citations? No, try the rare book market.

Salon 21 March

• A childhood friend of J.K. Rowling's, named Ian Potter, suspects that he was the inspiration for Harry Potter.

Book March/April 2000

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Tue 21 Mar 2000

• Time Magazine puts Stephen King on the cover, for the success of his e-book Riding the Bullet. Time's website has several do-it-yourself guides about how to promote your work on the web, including this one on writing.

 

• Wired for April has a long doomsayer essay by Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, about the dangers of the 21st century: specifically, mankind controlled by robots. The piece has already attracted reaction from Edward Rothstein in Saturday's New York Times [link no longer available], John Markoff in Sunday's New York Times (Dr. Frankenstein, Please Call Your Office), and Robert Wright in Slate (Could Robots Take Over the World?).

 

• Meanwhile, Slate columnist Mickey Kraus has a striking observation about Robert Wright's Nonzero: it not only echoes Marxism, it subsumes it.

Slate 20 March

 

• The debut of The Journal of Mundane Behavior, which analyzes the significance of the ordinary, is getting some attention.

ABC News [AP]

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