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...really driven by curiosity, which, once it gets focused on something, becomes kind of obsessive. My initial thought was to write a 250-, 300-page book, more or less in the traditional format, where you start with a dead body or a crime, and then 300 pages later, everything is explained, and you're done. But as soon as I started pressing at the subject a little, the connections were just so many, and they just sprang up. What I mean by that is the sort of obvious connections between organized crime and politics in Bombay and in the country...
...Bellow and his business partner, David Bernstein, also an experienced publishing hand, are betting that these bite-sized books are the perfect way to capture the best voices of the blogosphere in an easy-to-read format. Says Bellow: "Pamphlets are the ideal form for the needs of the intelligent reader in our fast-paced, media-saturated, ADD culture." The average TNP pamphlet averages 40 to 80 pages. Small enough to cart around easily (4x6 inches), they run $4 apiece on TNP's website...
...want to be making a paper hat in a jury pool, so I read the WSJ. The new format was inviting. I learned that the dollar needs to get weaker so it won't suddenly collapse and that there is such a thing as investing in orange juice futures. Then we were called up to the courtroom. A not-guilty-looking young woman stood accused of selling cocaine. The law was going to have a hard time convincing me to send that little girl up the river...
...Avatar will be in 3-D. Why did you choose that format...
...North Korea talks on the sidelines, as mentioned by U.S. delegation chief Christopher Hill. The Russian Foreign Office leaked comments of its senior official to a Moscow daily to the effect that "We're not going to let the Americans monopolize any contacts outside the six-party talks format." That sounds as resolute as it is ineffective: Unlike the U.S., Russia has neither the stick nor the carrot that could change North Korea's behavior...