tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17976187.post4036887160180627306..comments2023-10-15T05:23:10.677-04:00Comments on Thirsty: A Biblioasis Miscellany: Q&Q on Biblioasis, the TINY Windsor-based pressUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17976187.post-45349854829457233662007-07-19T15:01:00.000-04:002007-07-19T15:01:00.000-04:00I didn't see this until just now! Did I really say...I didn't see this until just now! Did I really say that about Windsor? I meant Sarnia.....<BR/><BR/>GGMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14663103545444712062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17976187.post-92011864405672356632007-06-19T23:23:00.000-04:002007-06-19T23:23:00.000-04:00Every time my old press was mentioned in Q&Q, we a...<I>Every time</I> <A HREF="http://www.brindleandglass.com" REL="nofollow">my old press</A> was mentioned in Q&Q, we also got hit with that adjective. I think Q&Q are closet size-queens.<BR/><BR/>"Ooh, Mr. Davidar! Your press is so <I>big</I>!"Aubadicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16717991187162056875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17976187.post-88375032913577833292007-06-07T22:38:00.000-04:002007-06-07T22:38:00.000-04:00Thanks, Zach. Guess it wasn't clear I knew what i...Thanks, Zach. Guess it wasn't clear I knew what it was. But I figure most in the audience when I introduce George will not.<BR/><BR/>You've seen Windsor, Zach: Shitty, with sex.biblioasishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095243375615643176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17976187.post-70741184815030217792007-06-07T16:11:00.000-04:002007-06-07T16:11:00.000-04:00Perineum: the area between the anus and the poster...Perineum: the area between the anus and the posterior part of the external genitalia. Guess that means that Windsor is neither sexy nor shitty. Or perhaps that it's a bit of both...Zachariah Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17976187.post-61728026058705992102007-06-06T11:41:00.000-04:002007-06-06T11:41:00.000-04:00I'm not actually all that worried about our size: ...I'm not actually all that worried about our size: there are days, trust me, I wish we were more bonsai. But I have been doing a lot of thinking about how literary presses get labeled. The one that gets my goat most is 'independent'. A chest puffer of a term, signifying nothing. As if we're all revolutionaries with our cravats askew. Any press that considers the citizenship of a writer before the manuscript in question can lay no claim to being independent, and most quote-unquote independent presses do so. Indeed, it may be that some of these conglomerates are some of the only independent presses in the country. Fiscal realities, I can hear the chorus sing, and I'm quickly learning that they're telling the truth: but claims made about our purported independence ring no less false for that.biblioasishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095243375615643176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17976187.post-17597694679029825162007-06-05T20:55:00.000-04:002007-06-05T20:55:00.000-04:00re: "tiny". Back when I was co-founder and co-edi...re: "tiny". Back when I was co-founder and co-editor for Villeneuve Publications (an enterprise that makes Biblioasis look like Random House), we liked to call ourselves a "bonsai" press.<BR/><BR/>re: "what the !@#$%? is a perineum"? ans: The site of a routine but mostly quite unnecessary surgical procedure, on account of which new mothers have to sit on inner tubes. "The stitches! oh god, the stitches!" as a character in a Dorothy Parker story (I Live on Your Visits) put it. (What this has to do with Windsor is anybody's guess.)<BR/><BR/>-Robyn SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com