Monthly Archives January 2008

Bookninja points to an article about Canadian author winning the literary lottery. Perhaps more interesting than this tale of a first-time novelist getting a $1.25 million advance is the rundown of bigtime advanaces at the end of the article.

Here’s an interesting article on self-publishingby the San Jose Mercury News. Unfortunately, they got the fact about John Grisham and A Time to Kill wrong.

Galleycat pointed out that Leo Babauta recently launched a new blog about writing called Write to Done.

One of the most anticipated fiction debuts of the year hits New York City tonight as Mark Sarvas reads from his forthcoming novel,

Over at Beatrice, I posted a note about Joe McGinniss’ The Delivery Man: A Novel.

There’s an interesting discussion about what to do with Vladimir Nabokov’s unpublished novel over at The Guardian. How do you respect someone’s last wishes while also respecting literary history and scholarship?

There was a good profile of British author Pat Barker in The Los Angeles Time yesterday.

“It really is just about the writing,” 

Peter Pan’s home is for sale. Or, more specifically, the home of Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie could be yours for slightly more than $13.2 million.

Or, at least survivals.

The great Bookninja points to a particular letter to the editor that argues not all independent bookstores are dying.

Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides is the subect of a nice, long profile in Britain’s Telegraph.

“I remember when I was 16,