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Keep This In Mind Keep in mind, folks, that there are over 200 countries and territories in the world---and 100s of 1000s of bookshops. Having books available in such a marketplace is, then, a complex question.-Ron

To Add Some More Comments I'll add a few more comments in attempting to answer the question raised at the start of this thread.-Ron Price, Tasmania -------------------------------------------------------- Publishers tend to publish, and book stores tend to stock, books that sell. In addition...

I Have No Idea Publishers and book stores tend to stock books that sell. If they don't sell they don't stock them. That is one approach to the problem.

Belated, Very Belated Thanks Belated, Very Belated Thanks...I'll start a blog.-Ron Price, Tasmania:cool:

Gore Vidal(b.1925-), who has been called the best all-around American man of letters since Edmund Wilson(1895-1972), began his writing career at nineteen, the year I was born. In 1962, the year I began to travel for the Canadian Baha’i community and begin my own serious literary and academic...

Prelude The Piano Teacher was on SBSTWO last night.1 I had seen part of this 2001 film before and I saw part of it again. It won many awards and was based on the 1983 novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. The film is a realistic...

In life all one does is scratch the surface of knowledge. This afternoon I scratched the surface after a late lunch, or perhaps it was an early evening meal. I was alone and everyone was away celebrating mothers’ day. In the late afternoon ABC1 television usually has what my wife and I have...

More on Graham Greene This thread has not been active for some time, but I will post More on Graham Greene and hope my comment finds some interest among readers.-Ron in Tasmania ------------------ A BURNT-OUT CASE SBS TV showed the docudrama Lamumba two nights ago, on the evening of 30...

FAKE Fake news made its debut on TV in 1962 with That Was the Week That Was--a weekly comedy review. This review included a fake news segment and was anchored by David Frost who went on to host The Frost Report in 1966/67 which parodied a current events show. I began my pioneer-travelling...

And Here is A Second Prose-Poem GOLD, SAPPHIRE AND BLOOD Emile Bronte wrote the novel Wuthering Heights and a body of poetry called the Gondal just before and just after the Decalaration of the Bab. A study of this remarkable woman and her writings will reveal some interesting...

As A Teacher ofWuthering Heights, I..... As A Teacher of Wuthering Heights, I.....can understand the negative reactions of some readers at this Book & Reader Forum. I wrote the following prose-poem about Emily Bronte and her work. I post it here for the possible pleasure of readers.-Ron in...

Some Personal Reflections on Proust THE VASE “An hour is not merely an hour,” wrote the French novelist Marcel Proust, “it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.”1 This sentence conveys much of the tone and the texture, the spirit and the form, the medium and the...

This May Help, bazonix. I wrote this prose-poem today about Miller, his life and work. You folks may find this useful.-From Ron Price in Australia:cool: -------------------------------------- WHO ARE YOU HENRY MILLER? “All of Henry Miller’s work,” writes Jay Morten, “constitutes the...

Perhaps I will get around to reading Manning Clark's History of Australia: Volumes 1-6 in the latter years of my latter years. It is still too much for me, too detailed an account for someone like me who likes a general picture and has so much that he wants to read from an immensely burgeoning...

History is not just a pile of facts, something dressed up for the movies or a story in a book. It functions like the potter's clay and has a genuine significance for our lives when its facts live in the present through the meaning they bring to the present, through how they illumine the present...