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Research material for "Bildung in Hollywood".

Sixty - count 'em, folks - sixty pages of our first issue of Cantaraville.

Our latest batch of representative stories, excerpts, nonfiction and poetry from our literary magazine, Cantaraville.

More stories from our PDF-exclusive literary magazine, Cantaraville.

There are songs linked to the story, "Do I Owe You 50 Francs?" This short examination in French will illuminate some of the wartime history of these chansons.

From Crimethinc.com, stalwarts of small press and indie book fairs all over the US, still fighting the good fight in Olympia, Washington.

Camille Paglia's intuitive history of the era of Flower Power.

From Prospect magazine. Why are today's novels so ponderous, pessimistic and full of empty self-importance? As Gough says, comedy is divine, tragedy is merely human. So let's get back to writing for the gods.

Public intellectual Lawrence Lessig's focus is the social dimension of creativity. In Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas and shows how short-sighted interests are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.

The 2000 translation. Swedenborgianism's keystone book.

This was created specifically for the documentary, Independent America (independentamerica.net), but its advice is applicable to hosting almost any other indie film.

One of our "Classical Siblings" reprints of enduring works of literature, this one is being "siblinged" with Penance by Jack Adler, downloadable at Cantarabooks.

5,000 insightful words on Stephen's films and writing from someone else besides me.

Utilizing the work of social scientist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, this is durable and salient advice to writers on how to bear the seeming randomness of literary success. By the Grumpy Old Bookman himself.

One of the foundational articles for The Artistic Ecosphere,

Cory's mentioned in my 2005 essay, "Writing in the New Publishing Paradigm". This is the book quoted from at the beginning of an episode of Criminal Minds (CBS).

This is a handsome flyer made for Stephen's reading-screening at Colorado University.

This is the defining interview that has it all: Sex, Stephen, and the future of small press.

The complete anthology from our old writing group, started in Paris, France and continued in San Francisco, California.

From Brad Grochowski's AuthorsBookshop.com, the best online book retailer (now also brick-and-mortar) you'll ever find.