Booker Shortlist Announced
All the book blogs are talking about this, so I’ll be brief on this post. Here’s an article from Guardian Unlimited about the trimming down of the 17 books on the Booker Prize longlist. John Banville, Julian Barnes, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, and Zadie Smith all made the cut. The winner will be…
continue readingRock Novels
Michael Schaub presents a pretty exhaustive list of rock novels over at Bookslut. He even breaks down the list into Punk Rock Novels, Science Fiction Rock Novels, Indie and Alternative Rock Novels, Rock Industry Novels, 1980’s Rock Novels, Rock Star Novels, Amateur/Garage Band Rock Novels, The Best of Rock Novels, and New and Forthcoming Rock…
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 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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