Sunday Book Review Round Up
Here’s a round-up of the Sunday book coverage. I’m afraid you’ll need to register for most of these sites, which is one of my big pet peeves in life, but it is usually free. So at least there’s that. Anyway, the critics seemed to be ready to dig into Bret Easton Ellis new novel as…
continue readingLots of Movement at NYT Book Review
MediaBistro is reporting a lot of office shifting at The New York Times Book Review. Eden Ross Lipson is retiring as children’s editor and is being replaced by Julie Just, who moves over from her spot as the deputy editor. Meanwhile, Bob Harris has been promoted to deputy editor, taking over Just’s vacated desk. And…
continue readingYou Can’t Avoid: Death, Taxes, and Book Club Torture
The Washington Post has an interesting article today on the Sisyphus-ean task of extricating yourself from a book club. Read the full article here.
continue readingBooker Prize Longlist Released
Starting out this post, I originally wanted to use an image of the janitor from Good Times but then I found out that his name was Bookman, not Booker. So then I stumbled across some wrestler guy named Booker T. but the WWE website didn’t seem to like me taking their images. And no one…
continue readingCan We Please Outlaw Mirror Descriptions of Characters?
I’m utterly amazed how this can actually be used by a professional writer, in a professional magazine. This is something that we all have done, so don’t act like you didn’t, but usually we outgrow this after the first few stories. So I’m just shocked to see it in an otherwise decent story I read…
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