As I was swamped with work over the last couple of weeks, I must admit that I fell behind in my blog-reading activites.
Learn the Lingo
Speaking of such illicit matters, do you know what a gaffus is? How about a schmecker?
Now This is What You Call a Platform
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Aspiring authors are often stumped when they see agents and editors recommend a “platform” as part of pitching a book.
Welsh and Coffee Shops
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I finally got around to reading Irvine Welsh’s The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs over the weekend.
Manbug Week Begins
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As we did last week with Sideshow, the Litblog Co-Op will spend the next several days discussing George Ilsey’s ManBug.
Ahhhh, So That’s What She Was Doing With Her Time
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So I lost my bet on when Michiko Kakutani’s trashing of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road would appear.
The Sideshow at LBC
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I’ve been out of the mix, but my colleagues at the LitBlog Co-Op have been hard at work promoting the Fall’s Read This!
McCarthy Gets Wired
Syntax of Things pointed out this absolutely mind boggling Wired magazine interview with Cormac McCarthy.
Kakutani Shakes and Spears Rosenbaum
The clock is ticking on my bet that the New York Times would run a Michiko Kakutani chop-job on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Drowning in Work
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Sorry I’ve been so silent this week. I’ve been toiling on a nonfiction project that has kept me up working until 2am and then back up at 4am so I can get a few more hours in before going to the office.
Miss Snark Nails the Inefficient
The gleefully venomous Miss Snark skewers the publishing industry’s more inefficient organizations today. One of my biggest pet peeves with the aspiring author gig is having to wait for months,
Everyone, Meet Beatrice
Actually, if you’re a book-blog reader, you probably already know this fine site. But I’m going to be popping in at Beatrice at least once a week (whenever the slush demons let me out) for some guest-posting.
Enough with This Whole “Tell Your Story” Stuff
I’ve been bitching about this for a while now… I’m sick of all these criminals and cretins who, after their screw-ups and traumas,
Hard to be Objective
I was going to try and somehow review, or at least discuss, Larry Brown’s essay The White Coon in the current issue of Field &
Wylie Interviewed in Le Monde
Andrew Wylie is arguably one of the three most influential literary agents in the business. And he prefers to keep a low profile so you ain’t gonna see him popping up on a panel at the Serial Killer Romance Writers of Greater Tupelo Mississippi Area Book Conference anytime soon. However,
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