by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 21, 2011 | DOMA/DADT
Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is a big one for me. I served in the Army in the late fifties, and I remember condescending sergeants talking about the “pitter patter of little feet in the barracks” and claiming to know everything that happened in their barracks....
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 16, 2011 | Coming out
“Mommy!” “What? What’s the matter?” “I don’t know how you can say that.” “What?” “That you love me, but you don’t care what I am.” “Well, I do. I love you, and I don’t care whether you like boys or girls.” “But it’s different, liking boys and liking girls. And...
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 9, 2011 | Publishing
The “long tail,” as it applies to the book industry, is described as a graph of the sales of books. If there are twenty-two books for sale, the one with the most sales would be on the left, with a tall bar. And then, stretching out to the right, each of the other...
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 3, 2011 | Publishing
Last week, Ewan Morrison, writing in The Guardian, asked, “Are books dead?” and “Can authors survive?” He was writing in the context of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and his belief that the “publishing industry is in terminal decline.” It is an interesting...
