Debate Grows Over Chick Lit and Feminism
There have recently been some interesting defenses of Chick Lit by writers who say that female critics shouldn’t be complaining about all those pink-covered books that feature such emphasis on shoes and dating. Bestselling author Jennifer Weiner said in an article with the San Francisco Chronicle that she minored in women’s studies at Princeton and…
continue readingBarry Blows Down the Block
“The Block” in Baltimore is a city block that is home to dozens of strip clubs where Blaze Starr once held court, but that’s not what author Max Barry is talking about in a post on his great website. Instead, he’s talking about overcoming writer’s block. A fan wrote in and said they were stuck…
continue readingGentlemen, Start Your Engines
Or, to use a term from horse racing, and they’re off! National Novel Writing Month begins today so that’s 50,000 words everyone. The clock’s ticking…
continue readingKate Moss the Poet?
This is a tad old, but I just found this via the excellent Syntax of Things… (By the way, the photo of a jack-o-lantern on the Syntax of Things page just cracks me up.) It seems that Kate Moss turned to poetry during her rehab stint. There were reports that the supermodel “allegedly writes poems…
continue readingJames Patterson from a Business Perspective
A couple of the blogs are talking about a profile of bestselling author James Patterson that appeared in the New York Times recently. The article wasn’t in the books section, but rather, the business pages of the newspaper. Patterson, who the article states made $40 million last year, “has had four hardcover books on the…
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