Perhaps of Interest

http://www.eltiempo.com/blogs/el_tablero/2009/02/colombia-un-pais-de-lectores-p.php

Bookstores and Tommorow's Visit

Please remember your responsibities for this course:

1- Some of you have note been completing blogs or responding to the assigned reading. This must be completed by Friday, latest.

2- You must read the article as assigned by our representative from Norma. I'll resend the calendar with an updated scheduele.

3- Today you must visit the following bookstores: Artes y Letras, Libreria Nacional (whichever is easiest for you), Authors/French Bookstore, and on other of your choosing. Blog your visits tonight, so that I know you've gone.

4- Make sure to bring ID tomorrow. It is imperative to have some form of picture ID or we will not be allowed in.

Friday we'll visit what I consider to be the best at the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Center from the Fondo Cultural.

Salmon Rushdie

In preparation for tonight's visit read something by Rushdie both fiction and non-fiction (some of you have already done this with Sheldon Guenther).

Also
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21495

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/02/25/080225fi_fiction_rushdie

Today's Visit

Our guest (?), Alejandro Pino, just published this today
http://www.futbolred.com/blogs/gotas_de_veneno/2009/01/de-camisetas-y-maldiciones.php

Also read the following to
http://www.diariodeportivo.com/america.htm

After today's visit you'll write a blog entry about your experience in light of today's in class discussion.

Here's the Carver and Lutz controversy:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/24/071224fa_fact
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/12/24/slideshow_071224_carver

Monday I'll expect you to have completed your Rushdie tasks in preparation for his lecture.

Also, Thursday our visit to Norma Thursday at 7 in the morning has been confirmed.

You must read "People of the Screen." Luis Fernando has also recommended these books:

Epstein, Jason. La industria del libro. Anagrama.Sharpe L. y Gunther I. Manual de edición literaria y no literaria. Fondo de Cultura Económica.*Davies, G. Gestión de proyectos editoriales, Fondo de Cultura Económica.*Schiffrin A. La edición sin editores. Era.

Getting Started

Welcome to CWW Publishing in Bogota! Let's start by agreeing to check and communicate through this digital publication everyday until next Friday, as to avoid any misunderstandings.

First off, today you'll have your first assignments:
Read this
http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging
and create your own blog on blogger.com (another free blogging service).

Write you first blog entry in which you discuss why you're interested in publishing, the sorts of things you like to read and what you might like to write.

Also, read this blog entry by Michael Kandel
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Kandel-Candid.html
and respond to it on your blog.

Finally, read
http://www.eltiempo.com/culturayocio/lecturas/originalesfebrero/el-libro-en-iberoamerica_4772667-1
and respond to it on your blog.

Friday, we'll meet at school at 12 in my classroom. At 3 we'll leave for the offices of El Diario Deportivo to speak with Alejandro Pino.