Posting will probably be somewhat sporadic over the next couple of days as I spread literary holiday cheer amongst my family.
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Writing About Writing
Posting will probably be somewhat sporadic over the next couple of days as I spread literary holiday cheer amongst my family.
n+1 features an intriguing article on the nature of the supposed reading crisis, the tactics the contemporary authors are using to stall the Grim Reaper,
The Book Standard recently posted a good interview with Jim Harrison. In ‘Legends of the Fall’
As the days of 2005 fade away and we prepare to launch into 2006, CNN features an AP report on what surely will become a New Year’s tradition…
According to a Times Online article, the story you slaved over for years, and then waited two years for it to be published and hit the shelves,
Several of the book blogs recently pointed out the number of New York Times notable books that were written by staffers and even editors of the Grey Lady.
Pamela Paul, author of Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families, wrote an interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times.
Philip Roth sat down for a cantankerous interview with with the Guardian and it’s a fascinating piece.
While crappy publicists get the attention (such as the poor soul who provided fodder for every book blogger by emailing folks about the greatness of Pamela Anderson’s new novel) and celebrity publicists get all the headlines (such as Lizzie Grubman’s automobile antics),
Our favorites over at MacAdam/Cage take over the Happy Endings Reading Series in New York City tonight.
The fantastic blog Syntax of Things did an amazing job of compiling a list of writers that we all should support.
I was fighting the crowds in a Barnes and Noble the other day, pushing aside old ladies buying kitty calendars for their grandkids and moms piling up those Klutz children’s books that drove me bananas when I worked at a bookstore.
All you aspiring authors should keep in mind that the United States Postal Service is raising rates in early January.
Jarret Keene wrote an interesting twist on the ubiquitous gift giving guides we see this time of year.
Tom Piazza appears at Square Books in Oxford, MS today to promote his new book Why New Orleans matters. The book examines the city in political and cultural context after Hurricane Katrina,
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