Author: Lancelot Schaubert
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Does Fiction Lie? — The Liar’s Club
Chapter three in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Before I discovered poetry on my own, I had told stories to friends and…
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The Gateway Drug: Poetry
Chapter two in a series on Book and Art Business 101 wherein I show how the solid logic of art business sold me on self-publishing. If you’re too busy for the whole series, download your copy of my Cheat Sheet for Book and Art Business 101. Let me tell you the way of things: I fell into this gig.…
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Art Business Logic Sold Me on Self-Publishing :: Intro and Chapters
or Book and Art Business 101: How the Good Business Sense of Self-Publishing Finally Won Me Over I am not one to easily say I was wrong, but, my friends, I was terribly, horribly wrong. Wrong for the past ten years or more concerning a very important part of the publishing industry and art business.…
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Hipster Bank in Dickens
I think I just found the first hipster bank in Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities :: Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that…
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The Revitalization Movement in the Urban Greco-Roman World
Christianity served as a revitalization movement that arose in response to the misery, chaos, fear, and brutality of life in the urban Greco-Roman world. … Christianity revitalized life in cities by providing new norms and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many urgent urban problems. To cities filled with the homeless and…
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BRYAN COFFEY :: IN MEMORIUM
Bryan Coffey passed away a few days ago. He is survived by his wife Shirley Schaubert-Coffey and children and grandchildren and so, so, so many of us. They have a saying in Spanish: The words are grieved. Means that some things are so heartbreaking that it’s folly to try and speak about them. But…
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Short Film Festivals :: DOs and DON’Ts
I’ve been a judge for several short film festivals in NYC since I moved here and I’ve noticed common threads in the ones I reject (finishing up my list for one of the bigger festivals today). Those of you who have been around the block won’t need to read this — you know this stuff…
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On Haters
Starting to fully understand the concept of the “hater” in rap music. I thought it was simply one-who-hates, but it’s not. It’s pretty specific. The word has a creative bend — remember, rappers are artists: A hater is someone who will always be against you and the good work you want to do in the…
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Novel Online :: How She Dethroned the eBook
Seems these days old men like me can’t keep up with the pace of publishing. And if that’s how I feel at 28 (my birthday’s this month!), I can’t imagine what it feels like to be a sixty-year-old literary agent or legacy publisher. Honestly, I’m excited because I love adapting. Let’s start with a couple of…
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Does Talent Exist?
No. Or rather the existence of talent is so widespread and common that its potency clocks in at around the near-impotent range. Here’s the thing: My buddy used to work for Community Support Services, which helps mentally handicapped people live bright and vibrant lives. His main client was Jerry. Jerry still ranks in the…
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The Hipster Fallacies
INTERVIEWER What about the letters to your fiancée was Pynchonian? JOHNATHAN FRANZEN The tangly sentences, the overfullness of them, and a kind of dirty explicitness. A hipster jadedness. “Seen it all, done it all, don’t mean shit.” Like the dark side of R. Crumb. — from his “Art of Fiction” interview in The Paris Review…