Remoto ControlDanton Remoto Down with discrimination vs. indie publishers Everything’s coming up roses for the Philippine publishing industry. After Covid-19, more books have been published, more people are going into publishing, and the government has helped immensely through the National Book Development Board, under the dynamic duo of Dante “Klink” Ang II and Charisse Aquino […]
EditorialJuly 16, 2024The Manila Times Rising expectations at the Department of Education Newly appointed Secretary of Education, Senator Juan Edgardo Angara, has hardly warmed his seat when several organizations had already launched missile-like wish lists for the department. Let us calm down and please note that Senator Angara will only have four years until his […]
Danton RemotoLodestar One of the last books I bought from Kinokuniya Bookstore in Malaysia wasKazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize for Literature lecture published by Faber andFaber. Called My Twentieth Century Evening and Other SmallBreakthroughs, it is a helpful book for all aspiring writers. Instead of giving a lecture bristling with critical theory, Ishiguro talksabout his beginnings […]