User:ShelfSkewed

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I live in Webster Groves, Missouri, and own a lot of books. No, really: a lot.

WU
This user attended
Washington University
in St. Louis (LA 1984)




This user is a book collector.




SS This user enjoys copying other people's code and making up Userboxes that are found only on his own page.

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[edit] A definition

Shelf skew is a term used by book dealers and collectors to describe what happens to a book when, rather than being held upright on the shelf, it is allowed to lean diagonally. One cover is forced up while the other sags, the entire text block is pushed out of alignment, and the spine gets torqued out of shape. So shelf skewed is a book-nerd way of saying twisted.

[edit] Stuff I'm working on

  • List of novelists from the United States — basically done, but I keep tweaking; also going through the list and making sure that all the authors with articles have the [[Category:American novelists]] tag—and copy-editing many of the articles.
  • Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern — built a table, exerting massive overkill on the details, and waiting for some feedback.
  • Tagging names and titles with [[Category:Edgar Award winners]] and [[:Category:Edgar Award winning works]].
  • Populating Category:American online publication editors
  • Finally getting around to writing some of the articles from the somebody-should-do-it list below.
  • Generally roaming around and engaging in WikiGnome-ish activities and looking for another project to put on this list.

[edit] Articles I've created

(Yup, that's it.)

[edit] Notes to myself

[edit] Articles that need work

[edit] Articles I (or somebody) should create

  • David Carkeet
  • Robert L. Fish
  • Joe Gores Joseph Nicholas Gores (born 1931) "one of only two authors^ to receive Edgar Awards in three separate categories: Best First Novel [1970, A Time for Predators], Best Short Story [1970, "Goodbye, Pops" from EQMM] and Best TV Series Segment [correction: Best Episode in a TV Series Teleplay] [1976, Kojak, "No Immunity for Murder"]." http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/gores.html

^(the other is Donald E. Westlake: 1968, Best Novel, God Save the Mark; 1990, Best Short Story, "Too Many Crooks"; 1991, Best Motion Picture Screenplay, The Grifters)

  • Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • Margaret Maron
  • Douglas Unger Leaving the Land --finalist for 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
  • Richard Wormser

[edit] Other stuff

== Fair use for [[ARTICLE NAME]] ==
This image, [picturename].jpg, is being linked here; although the picture is subject to copyright, uploader feels it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

  1. it is a low resolution copy of a magazine cover;
  2. the image will be used for educational purposes, to illustrate article name and other relevant articles in an encyclopedia;
  3. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the magazine in any way;
  4. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the cover artwork on another magazine;
  5. the image is significant because it depicts a particular issue of a notable literary journal.
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