Munro Takes Man Booker
Short story master Alice Munro won the Man Booker Prize yesterday. The judges stated, “To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before.”
continue readingHannah’s Rules
HTML Giant recently had a nice post from a former student of Barry Hannah’s that details the master’s rules for stories. Definitely check it out because the poster even featured a copy of Hannah’s handwritten notes, which sometimes frustrated me for hours as I tried to decipher the script. Although, Hannah’s handwriting made it difficult…
continue readingE-Books and Prices
In the New York Times, Motoko Rich examines the problems surrounding pricing e-books in an article entitled “Steal this Book (for $9.99). It’s an interesting look at how the publishing industry needs to balance the consumer’s perception that digital literature needs to be dirt cheap with the economic realities of the costs involved in making…
continue readingOutcast Author Question & Answer
Here’s an interesting question and answer session with Warren St. John, New York Times reporter and author of the recently released Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town. Since we’re all bookish types around here, St. John’s name may be familiar because he was a key figure in the unmasking of J.T. Leroy three…
continue readingDeteriorating into Texan
Here’s an article in the UK’s Daily Mail about an abandoned celebrity memoir from Jerry Hall. These things happen so in and of itself, this article isn’t that remarkable. However, I found this statement from one of Hall’s friends amusing: “They seemed OK with her writing style but she couldn’t keep it up and it…
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