Author: Burton h. Wolf
ISBN: 1419619748
Today, the editor of Norman Goldman, Bookpleasures.com is honored to have our guests, writers, journalists, and humor, Burton h. Wolf
Burton is the author of The Hippies, Hitler, Nazis, Pileup on Death Row, Devil, Dr.Noxin, The Devil & # 39; s Avenger. Many people recognized him as the foremost survey journalist on the West Coast of the United States.
Many award-winning Burton articles are published in hundreds of newspapers and magazines from San Francisco to Athens in Greece. He is also listed on who in the USA, who is Western, who is in California, international biography dictionary, modern author, and excellent intellectuals of the 20th century.
Recently Burton announced Lucifer's "American Language Dictionary" published by Wild West Publishing House.
Thank you for agreeing to participate in our interview with Barton good day.
Norm:
When did your passion for writing begin? What will you keep going?
Burton:
In Washington DC at the age of 12, I decided to become a sports columnist like the Shirley Povich of the Washington Post. I abandoned the sports writing literature, philosophy, society, politics sentences in the middle of the university. Despite somehow I want to tell in words, while I overcome old age, I do not feel old from the mental point. Motivation is a psychologically difficult to understand element. Earl Conrad, a groundbreaking book author like Scottboro Boy, wrote until death, but the answer to the motivating element is simply "To write for me it is a custom There is none.
Norm:
Why did you feel strongly to write Lucifer's "American dictionary dictionary"?
Burton:
For many years, Americans have learned how to exploit English words in a fascinating way that corrupt people devastate the noble words like "democracy", depending on how the words of members of the media are used It is equivalent to the word "love" coming out of the mouth of a prostitute from their mouth.
To satisfy all that Ambrose Bierce and HL Mencken did in the same way in the previous era has offered a release for me. Also, I have very slim hope. Because, as this book gets popular, she will be more careful in putting words in prints and pacifying. The book tries to use English. If beautiful words are used correctly, please understand in the same way as you eat in a more accurate and original way.
Norm:
How long did it take to compile all the words contained in Lucifer's "American Dictionary Dictionary"? Can you explain some of your research methods and how you found the source of the dictionary? How did you come up with your unique and sometimes cheerful definition?
Burton:
I came up with a book about 15 years ago. Every time I hear words, phrases or phrases abused in English, I write down it and define it. Not only research but just observation, except for some exceptions that definition was derived in an unstable brain. If an exception occurs and I borrowed the concept of definitions to others, even if you reconstruct it, you will get approval.
Norm:
Your dictionary is compared with Ambrose Bierce's Devil & # 39; s Dictionary. Could you tell the reader about Bierce's dictionary? Did you pattern your dictionary after his dictionary? If not, what is the difference between the two?
Burton:
When Bierce lived in San Francisco where I currently live, he was a columnist of Hearst 's foundation stone paper, a San Francisco examiner who later journaled in his own periodicals. He became more cynical and satiric in his approach to commentation, as he made hypocrisy, hypocrisy and social injustice somewhere subject to anger and anger. He was called "Viterbias". His devil's dictionary appeared out of his bitterness and sneer.
To discard the standard application to words meaning something quite different from the method commonly used, to provide its true meaning and to add symbolic commentary, caricature cartoon We followed the method to adopt. Our style must be very different. Bierce wrote to the end of the Victorian era. Many of his sentences are also things and old-fashioned things. More importantly, most of the words I defined were not used in the era of Bierce, or were used in a way that was changed drastically. I can not imagine how much BIES sold devilsy how much it sold. However, such words did not exist in the era of Bierce.
Norm:
Your dictionary has a wider mission than just entertaining. Can you tell more about that mission and do you wish the reader to read your dictionary?
Burton:
In order for me to believe that there is a "mission" in publishing my dictionary of Lucifer, I had to be Don Quixote, or at least polylinna. The biggest reason why I can hope is that the reader has the determination to use English accurately and ingeniously according to the so-called "pop culture" that the reader knows when members of the media knows when it is known And business and social political leaders said that it takes time for readers to write letters to the media and to write letters to correct some of the extensive genocide of the language, It will have some effect.
Norm:
You refer to the monopoly game in the dictionary. You seem to be studying the history of this popular board game widely. Please let me know easily why Monopoly is interested in you and what you discovered.
Burton:
Professor Ralph Anspach of the Faculty of Economics at San Francisco State University produced a game called anti-monopoly, and when Parker Brothers sued him for infringing patents and copyrights, I was interested in the origin of the monopoly game. As a result of the newspaper on the litigation and the television coverage, Anspach is in a different form than Parker Brothers began manufacturing, from individuals who played games with different titles, games or similar games, or other names A similar board below.
In his research, what is known in the law as a discovery process occurring during the litigation was a long buried story merged.
Henry George 's single tax theory, Lizzie Maggie' s follower, proved to be a pioneer of the monopoly game "The Landlord '# 190 Game" in 1904. By using it as an educational tool through the same kind of entertainment provided by a monopoly company, Lizzie greedily acquired a lot of real estate by landlord, real estate mogul, railroad company and so on.
This will provide fun through today's monopoly game winning more property until the game wins or as Shelley Berman said, until you experience the pleasure of wiping your friends It was a completely different purpose. As the game spread across the United States with different names including the name "Monopoly", traditionally the players have made their own boards and rules.
"Inventors" of the monopoly game produced by Parker Brothers, Charles Darrow participated in a group playing a game in the Philadelphia - Atlantic City area, mainly with Quakers with his wife. Quaker gathered together the boards of the same name and made the same rules for the Monopoly game which Parker Brothers was commercial producing.
Darrow then figured out the possibility of getting lucky, copied the board and rules, and handed the game to Parker Brothers. When the chief executive of Parker Brothers learned the truth, they told Darrow not to close his mouth. And they will all get lucky from this game they stole. They have.
I printed the whole story at the San Francisco Bay Guardian and other periodic publication writers took it out and summarized what I wrote. This was typical of pioneering journalism that I went from the 1960s to the 1970s. Also, even if it is something like a work I created, once it becomes part of culture, I can not eradicate a lie.
In commemoration of the "invention of Darrow" of the monopoly game, Broadway and Park Place of Atlantic City, which continues to repeat myths invented by Dallow, a large-scale periodical publication of The New York Times, New York, The Atlantic Monthly, A monopoly game equal to saying that he invented fire and wheels. There is no letter or telephone call by Anspach and myself, there is no money to eradicate the media and the prostitutes of the Atlantic City Government so you can eradicate Big Lie and guide you to tell the truth about history.
This is the reason I define monopoly in my way, this is an example of why I defined many words in Lucifer's dictionary in the cynical style I used.
Norm:
Could you tell me how you found a representation of your book? Did you ask a proxy who is most likely to publish this type of book? Are there rejections? Did you self-publish?
Burton:
I handed the book to at least 50 literary people. The agent that took it waves after more than a dozen rejections. Sometimes I submitted a book to nearly 100 future publishers. Most people refused a book called "not so much for me" as usual. However, some editors have commented that the book proved interesting and funny and sometimes written as "a wonderful book".
Some people replied that Bierce 's Devil' s dictionary feels that they have exhausted potential markets. Others did not present reasons for not publishing the book. Nobody acknowledges that I always doubt. The book is very controversial and it has too many fears of botcott and other spillings, as it is holding a nipple of a sacred cow of American society. The program for the authors provided by the BookSurge department of Amazon.com has made the books online and in high quality paperback versions even while using the name of a small journalist abandoned since the beginning of the 1970s I offered me a way to print: publisher.
Norm:
How do you describe the quality of today's journalism?
Burton:
In some respects it is more accurate than what exists in the era of so-called "yellow journalism". However, many stories and ideas most important to mankind are not only censored, but also blocked from discrimination, and their authors are on the blacklist.
Terminology is used in a terribly inaccurate form and is only a form of brainwashing as George Orwell (Eric Blair) predicted in the definition of "newspaper" in 1984. They do not have any meaning other than that provided by Big Brother and its cooperative media.
For example, the media refers to a murderer who uses himself as a weapon to kill and kill the media universally as a "suicide bomber". It leaves them in the area of martyrs for that reason. But "suicide" is not an act of using myself as a weapon to kill people who do not believe in Imam's Muslims, but acts of taking their own lives.
I lost a character writer like Veils, Maken, Art Hoppe, Charles McKeve, Artemus Ward, Finley Peter Dan (Mr. Dolly), Don Marquis (Don Marquis). Today, American journalism gets worse, Archy and Mehitabel), or (but Cornball) Will Rogers. There is no more brilliant character writer in the newspaper anymore, there is no writer in the intestines anymore. The only place you can find them is on the internet. I have a long essay about this in my web log, Wolfebites. [http://burtonhwolfe.blogspot.com].
Norm:
What are the challenges and obstacles encountered when putting together a dictionary? How did you overcome these challenges?
Burton:
A big challenge was to continue to face rejection, to prevent themselves from escaping satire to Taylad against all existing hypocrisy and hypocrisy. Believe in the value of my book, I decided to find a way to make it a print. My ability to laugh at my sense of humor, otherwise I would be depressed, kept me away from the definition that appeared as Terades and confined me to the way of satire. I was laughing at what I wrote and enjoyed myself.
Norm:
What is your advice for success as a writer?
Burton:
Put your ass on a seat in front of a typewriter or computer, or raise the Ernest Hemingway on a bookshelf for a back problem or stand on the sofa, the way you choose is either daily or nightly Please be a part. Please do not delay. Do not write, please do not excuse.
Even if you encounter something called "block of writer" euphemically, you go into the chosen document, from doing nothing to writing anything from nothing written to something, two to three hours I will not do anything. Believe the value of your work, please choose another election or election.
Unless you decide to publish yourself, believe it, send it, and keep submitting it even if you receive rejection many times. Forget the suggested malice for self-publishing. Some of the most respected writers in the history of American literature began with self-publishing as well as individuals identified as writers. Politicians did. The essay of Benjamin Franklin was self-published. Promote yourself, boast about yourself and be careful not to bother anyone. Please follow the words of the long-term minister of coal miners. Union, John L. Lewis: "Those who hit their corners can not hit it."
Norm:
Have you seen any changes in the way publishers publish and / or distribute books in recent years? Are new trends developing?
Burton:
As more and more mice are present in major houses, leaving to the authors of "few" books about specific books designated in advance as profit-making minds, concentrate and promote more promotions doing.
The sales department of the publisher judges what seems to be a standard test. If the sales department does not anticipate selling at least 30,000 books, I will forget. Finding a large house looking at manuscripts not submitted by an established literary agent becomes increasingly difficult. Fortunately, there are many small publishers still available for non-agent posts. When one of these publishers succeeds, the major house sometimes suggests to segment its business and support distribution and promotion.
Burns and Noble is increasingly becoming a large-scale discount distributor and seller. Many books are bounced back soon and sold out at a much lower price than the original cover price.
There are too many competitions. Individual authors have such poor opportunities that they can not make money with a particular book. You must be fortunate and must be persistent with self-propagation. As vanity publisher, the tendency for publishers to operate is increasing more and more. The author is required to pay printing and advertising expenses. Distinguished publishers, especially publishers that scholars publish books, rely on their method of operation from a financial need.
Norm:
You will not leave us yet, but would you like to remember Burton h? Wolf?
Burton:
As someone who took note of my favorite quote from George Orwell (Eric Brea) and told the truth: "There was truth and there was no truth. If you were to truth even to the whole world If you stick to, you were not angry in 1984
Norm:
Is there anything we do not cover in Lucifer's "American dictionary dictionary"?
Burton:
Please make a reservation and read!
Thank you Burton for taking part in our interview again thanks.
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