Diagramming books
Kathleen Rooney: Why are some people so into labels? Like wanting to label things fantasy, or sci fi or literary? What do you make of these categories and how do you deal with/avoid being put into them, especially insofar as you've been in Conjunctions and McSweeney’s, but have also won Nebula and World Fantasy awards?
Kelly Link: Labels aren't nearly as useful as, say, Venn diagrams. Wouldn't it be great if bookstores could arrange their stock in a sort of enormous, elaborate, interlocking system of Venn diagrams?
Interview with Kelly Link, in Redivider, a journal of new literature, Spring 2006: Volume 3, No. 2.
posted by JohnM @ 21:03
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Now wouldn't that be interesting!
Have your Bookman get right on that, would you? ;)
It would be way better than organizing by color, although not as pretty.
heh. I'm sure corporate headquarters would love my Bookman for doing it ;)
Color is pretty but so much harder to find things.
Did you see that Kelly Link won not one but two Nebula awards?
Yep! Saw it on Kelly and Gavin's un-blog today. I don't know how much attendance costs, but she'll be down the road from you at Diversicon in August as the guest of honor.
Oh, that's spittin distance from me! I'll have to check my busy social calendar :)
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