Author: Scott McKenzie

Booker Prize Novels Rejected

  These exercises are depressingly predictable. Part of me wants to get riled up about this, part of me wants to accept it as inevitable, and part of me just wants to go back to bed. But, it’s still an interesting news item. The Sunday Times in Britain posted an article about British publishers who rejected…

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Happy Holidays

Posting will probably be somewhat sporadic over the next couple of days as I spread literary holiday cheer amongst my family. We’ll be back on a regular schedule towards the middle of next week. In the meantime, I hope everyone has a fantastic and safe holiday season!

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Reading Crisis Con Game, and Oprah

n+1 features an intriguing article on the nature of the supposed reading crisis, the tactics the contemporary authors are using to stall the Grim Reaper, and the influence of Oprah. After listing some marketing tactics used by ambitious writers, The Reading Crisis states that the activity of reading, “flat on its back, encounters these clown-suit…

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Book Standard Interviews Jim Harrison

The Book Standard recently posted a good interview with Jim Harrison. In ‘Legends of the Fall’ Author Jim Harrison: Loves Home, Hates School, the fantastic writer talked about his preference for the novella form, re-using the same locations for stories over and over again, and how too many aspiring authors don’t read enough. “I’m shocked…

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Another Year, Another Round of Da Vinci Contenders

As the days of 2005 fade away and we prepare to launch into 2006, CNN features an AP report on what surely will become a New Year’s tradition… picking the next batch of contenders to The Da Vinci Code crown. The article, Next ‘Da Vinci Code’? Plenty of choices, highlights three new novels that are…

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