BoD: Lords of Chaos
Feuding rappers from the East Coast and West Coast don’t have the market covered when it comes to musical warfare. So here’s our Book-of-the-Day, Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind recount the story of how nearly 100 churches were burned and desecrated, while suicide,…
continue readingGreat Quotes
Agent Noah Lukeman’s 2000 book The First Five Pages: A Writers Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile has some fantastic advice and tips we can all use. We’ll talk about that in a future post. But for now, we’ll focus on the great epigraphs that Lukeman provides at the start of every chapter.…
continue readingI Guess It’s Not Just the Germans
When he was on Saturday Night Live, Norm MacDonald frequently referred to Germans and their love of David Hasselhoff. Seems that maybe the British share the adoration for the hirsute star. Publishers Marketplace reported that UK rights to Hasselhoff’s autobiography (written with Peter Thompson) covering his life on the beach and in the entertainment business.…
continue readingBoD: Bookmark Now
The essays collected together in Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times present some interesting perspectives on the state of modern writing and publishing. In the introduction, written by editor Kevin Smokler, the 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Reading at Risk report serves as the catalyst for this examination of reading and writing. The report…
continue readingGlimmertrain Publishes New Bondurant Story
Our longtime readers will probably remember our interview with Matt Bondurant. Our discussion with Bondurant revolved primarily around his novel The Third Translation but he has also published short stories in some of the nation’s most prestigious literary journals. I just stumbled across a new appearance of his over the weekend when I picked up…
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