If you’ve never thought it was important to honor the writers of posts and stories in your tweets and other social media, meet Narrative Science, which uses data to generate mighty-fine sounding articles and news. Do the right thing: #CreditWriters.
A booming cottage business in “author services” tends to be fielding self-styled author publicists and marketers who don’t know how to mount an effective Twitter presence. A dead giveaway: They tweet as their companies, not as themselves.
A long overdue slap in the Facebook to the lie that “men don’t read”: We couldn’t ask for a better bookish role model than Mark Zuckerberg. The challenge for the publishing industry is to use Zuck’s “Year of Books” to build our male readership.
Full of boisterous power, composer Andrew Norman’s newly released recording of “Play” is all about his fascination with the “human energy” of orchestral performance. Our interview is part of the #MusicForWriters series, with New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music.
In an interview with John Luther Adams, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer talks of standing on the Arctic coastal plain to hear the “music of the wind pass over the strings” of an Aeolian harp “and enter my body.” #MusicForWriters with Q2 Music.
As publishing and its authors struggle to reach the right readers under a mountain of digitally triggered content, a young company in Boston — Trajectory — may be powering up the algorithms of true book “discoverability.”
This week’s Q2 Music Album of the Week, Martin Bresnick’s new “Prayer Remains Forever” is a brave exploration of life, death, and our search for something to confirm the unknowable. #MusicForWriters that “tells us how to remember.”
For a 40th year, Lake Superior State University has celebrated its freezing New Year in Michigan by issuing a list of “banished” words that we misuse or overuse. Pretty annoying. But if not “user-friendly” (they banished that phrase in 1984), the list does have its uses.
As Nielsen Market Research looked for clues to who buys and reads Mystery/Crime novels in a new study, cozy mystery author Elizabeth Spann Craig was busy finding those elusive younger readers for her mysteries — on Wattpad.
France’s Florent Ghys’ new album places his composition and performance — for double bass, voice, and hair dryers — onto a new channel of accomplishment. Listen as you read, thanks to New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music.