Did you know the cell phone companies are the number 1 complained about companies in Canada? If you have a cell phone, you know that's true, b/c we are the most gouged country in the world. Enter Wind: we have high hopes Wind, so don't let us down!
"Simply put, we want to create the most unforgettably positive customer experience in Canada.
How? By speaking with you, not at or over you. By making every site you visit, every store you set foot in and every call you have with us into a meaningful conversation to help build something better - together. We'll make it as easy as possible to be a customer. You'll have more control over your mobile experience than you've ever had before. And you'll get all this at a price you can afford.
The result of this vision, the core of what we all believe, is how it affects you...our customers, our partners.
Dialogue. Simplicity. Control. And Value."
"Why WIND?
WIND is an established and growing brand with a successful history of over 10 years in two large European markets (Italy and Greece). WIND is a brand of Wind Telecomunicazione, an operating unit of Weather Investments s.p.A., and its customer base shares a very similar profile with our primary target segment.
By choosing the brand name WIND, we’re not only leveraging its legacy as a challenger, but also its operational intelligence and global experience, bringing global standards for value and service to Canada. This provides us with a solid launching pad as we enter a very competitive and closely held market."
What? | One Story is a literary magazine that contains, simply, one story. Approximately every three weeks, subscribers are sent One Story in the mail. This story will be an amazing read. Each issue is artfully designed, lightweight, easy to carry, and ready to entertain on buses, in bed, in subways, in cars, in the park, in the bath, in the waiting rooms of doctors, on the couch in the afternoon or on line at the supermarket. One Story is available only by subscription. |
Why? | We believe that short stories are best read alone. They should not be sandwiched in between a review and an exposé on liposuction, or placed after another work of fiction that is so sad or funny or long that the reader is worn out by the time they turn to it. The experience of reading a story by itself is usually found only in MFA programs or writing workshops. This is a shame. Besides, there is always time to read one story. |
Who? | Maribeth Batcha, Publisher Maribeth Batcha is the publisher and co-founder of One Story. She has worked in magazine circulation for over 15 years for titles including Diabetes Self-Management, Lingua Franca, University Business, The New York Review of Books, Working Mother, andThe Progressive. In addition to circulation consulting, she currently does marketing and development copywriting for not-for-profits, including the 92nd Street Y and the National Academy Foundation. She has a BA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College, teaching a revisions tutorial in their MFA Program.Hannah Tinti, Editor Hannah Tinti developed her editorial skills working at literary agencies and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review and Washington Square. She earned her MA from New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, was sold in sixteen countries and was a runner up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her first novel, The Good Thief, will be published in September 2008. For more information, please visit www.hannahtinti.com.Devin Emke, Webmaster Devin Emke has been programming for the web since 1996. In addition to One Story, he has worked as webmaster and custom software developer for Rapaport Publishing and Viacom Interactive Services. In 2002 Devin built the custom web-based submission management system for One Story magazine that he later developed into Submission Manager.Tanya Rey, Managing Editor Tanya Rey is from the Miami area. She holds an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her work can be found online atMcSweeney's.Pei-Ling Lue, Associate Managing Editor Pei-Ling Lue was born in Oshima, Japan and arrived in New York at the age of five wearing a red hat. She holds an MFA from New York University and was a finalist for Fiction Magazine's contest for new writers. She teaches creative writing in Westchester County. In her other life, she is a Website Content Manager for cornerpoint.com. Pei-Ling takes time every day to save the short story.Marie-Helene Bertino, Assistant Editor Marie-Helene Bertino's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Pushcart Prize Anthology XXXIII, The North American Review (Kurt Vonnegut Award 2007), Mississippi Review (2007 Story Prize), Inkwell, The Indiana Review and Hotel Saint George Press. She received an MFA and The Himan Brown Award for Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. She is one of those people who never pipe down about being from Philadelphia.Elliott Holt, Reading Series Coordinator Elliott Holt's short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in various places, including The Bellevue Literary Review and online at theKenyon Review and Esquire's Napkin fiction project. She is a 2007 graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program, where she won the Himan Brown Award. She has been a recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and has been a resident at Yaddo. She is working on a novel.Andrew Crocker, Reader Andrew Crocker is from the Washington D.C. Metro Area. He attended Harvard University and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at New York University. His interests include subway systems of the United States/world, the Lucky Strikes logo, and cruciverbalism.Jesse Hassenger, Reader Jesse Hassenger was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, NY. He attended Wesleyan University and graduated in 2002; currently he lives in Brooklyn and is completing his MLS at Queens College. His short fiction has appeared in Brooklyn Review, Dirt, and Me Three; his film criticism appears in The L Magazine, PopMatters, and on filmcritic.com. For information on what albums he may or may not be listening to and how recently he's eaten cake, visit http://rockmarooned.livejournal.com.Yuka Igarashi, Reader Yuka Igarashi has worked as a researcher, a copywriter, and a book reviewer. She is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she also teaches undergraduate academic writing. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.Aubrie-Ann Jones, Reader Aubrie-Ann Jones was born in Illinois, brought up on the East Coast, has traveled to more than 40 countries, and now lives in Brooklyn. She is a mentor with the PEN American Prison Writing Program and an MFA candidate in fiction at The New School.Sara Batkie, Intern Sara Batkie grew up in the wilds of the Midwest, which she left almost immediately after graduating from the University of Iowa. She is now an MFA candidate in fiction at New York University, where she also teaches undergrads and helps coordinate the Emerging Writers reading series. She is working on a collection of short stories.Look at all the awards!! Best American Non-Required Reading 2009: Best American Non-Required Reading 2009, “Notable Stories”:
Best American Mystery 2009: New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2009: O. Henry Awards 2009: Puschart Prize 2009: Best of the Small Presses: Pushcart Prize 2009: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mention”:
Pushcart Prize 2008: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mention”:
O. Henry Awards 2007: Best Non-Required Reading 2007, Shortlist:
Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2007”: Best American Fantasy 2007: Best American Non-Required Reading 2006: O. Henry Awards 2006: Best American Short Stories 2006: Pushcart Prize 2006: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mention”: Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2006”:
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2006: Winner, Fountain Award 2005: Runner up, Fountain Award 2005: Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2005”:
Best New American Voices 2005: Pushcart Prize 2005: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mention”: Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2004”:
Best American Non-Required Reading 2004, short list: |
A couple of months ago, I interviewed Penguin designer Coralie Bickford-Smith in a video about her covers for the Gothic horror series. This last week we had another conversation, this time by email. I'd send her an image file with a question at the top, and then she'd fill the rest of the picture with anything she wanted and send it back, and then I'd send her another one.
This is the conversation, and that's me in the Helvetica:
The hardback classics are exclusively available at Waterstone's and through the Waterstone's website. Here's the full list, with a link to an image of each book:
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Tess of the d'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Coralie is too modest to say so, but she also just won an award for best 'Brand or Series Identity' at the British Book Design and Production Awards. She won for the Classic Boys' Adventures series, which you can buy as a complete set with an exclusive poster right here. (Is this not the greatest cover ever?)
And she designed this luxurious three-volume giftset of our new translation of The Arabian Nights (published at the end of the month), which are perhaps the most handsome books I have ever touched:
(Note for possible future misery memoir: Coralie designs books so nice that touching them makes me feel inferior.)
I suppose what I am getting at is that if you were to follow Coralie around and buy every book she designed, you would have a very beautiful library. No doubt her ability to make books so desirable will turn her into a figure of hate during this economic downturn, as she renders people unable to resist buying elegant hardback books, when they should really be eating instead. I am hungry, Coralie! Please stop this! My infant child needs shoes! Coralie, I ate his shoes!
Still, good work.
Alan
Copywriter
......................................................................Then, look at this fantastic set for boys literature, oh to have boys again; maybe I will get this set too, for my grandchildren when they come to visit Grammie's house:
The latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, were the heyday of the modern adventure novel. In these stories ordinary men pitted their brawn and wits against foreign spies, terrific monsters and strange lands.
The twelve classic adventure stories that make up the Boys' Adventure stories set are timeless tales of young men of action risking their lives against dark deeds and impossible odds.
My sewing area is actually pretty nice, it's upstairs where I have a beautiful view, and I have lots of shelving and table space... so I can't complain, but this room is just so lovely! Maybe instead of sewing, I should decorate my sewing room? See more at brownbutton.blogspot.com.
By removing the back and thigh bones, which is a lot easier than it sounds, you cut your cooking time in half. Also, this is a flexible recipe — you can vary the herbs and substitute any hearty vegetable for the potatoes.
SERVES: 4
TIME: 1 hour
Preheat the oven to 450ºF (on convection if possible).
Using a pair of sharp kitchen shears, remove and discard the backbone of the chicken (or save it for making stock). With a sharp pairing knife, remove the thigh bones — simply follow the bone and let your knife do the work for you. You can also ask your butcher to do this.
Lay the chicken, breast side up, in a roasting tray and press down with your hands so that it flattens. Squeeze over the lemon, getting the juice on and around the entire chicken, and throw the lemon halves into the tray. Toss in the garlic cloves, being sure to tuck a few underneath the bird along with the fresh herbs. Liberally salt and pepper the chicken and drizzle over enough olive oil to coat — about 3 tablespoons.
Meanwhile bring a saucepan of water to a boil and season with a few pinches of salt. Boil the potatoes for 8 minutes. Drain the potatoes, put them back in the pot with the lid on and shake vigorously to ‘fluff’ their exteriors. Put the potatoes in the tray with the chicken and drizzle with olive oil to coat (about another 3 tablespoons) and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Cover the tray with tinfoil, roast for 20 minutes, remove the tinfoil and baste with the juices that have collected on the bottom. Roast for an additional 20 minutes, uncovered, or until a thermometer inserted into the thigh registers at least 165ºF and the skin is browned.
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