McInerney Reviews Kunkel
Jay McInerney provides an interesting review of Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel in Sunday’s New York Times. In a quick wrap-up, McInerney describes the recent history of coming-of-age novels by writing, “In its modern form the American bildungsroman (the novel of formation) descends from The Catcher in the Rye‘ (1951). Reinvigorated by feminism in the 70’s,…
continue readingMeno to Appear in DC
Joe Meno, author of How the Hula Girl Sings is appearing Olsson’s in Dupont Circle, 1307 19th Street NW in Washington DC, tonight at 7pm. Meno’s new novel begins “exactly where most pulp fiction usually ends, with the vivid episode of the terrible crime itself. Three years later, Luce Lemay, out on parole for the…
continue readingBoD: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
If you’re like me, you only knew Arnold Schwarzenegger’s version of Conan. The muscle-bound, grunting misanthrope who famously uttered the response “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!” when asked the meaning of life. But the actual Conan stories, written by Robert E. Howard in…
continue readingAnother Sleepy Friday
I’m exhausted, suffering from allergy attacks and hungover from Nyquil, and it seems everyone else is too. So it’s another quiet day in the book world. If I see anything interesting today, or if I get otherwise inspired, I’ll post something up. But if I don’t talk to you, be sure to have a good…
continue readingThe Difference Between Writer and Author
Writer’s Digest has a cool quote on the difference between writers and authors: “Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”–Colette
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