Britain's Telegraph ordered to pay $100,000 over book review – latimes.com "The Daily Telegraph’s parent company was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $100,000 in damages over a book review. The British newspaper lost a lawsuit for libel and malicious falsehood in the high court." –An interesting case. Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » [...]
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The Millions : Tuesday New Release Day: Schwartz, Towles, Russell "New this week: John Burnham Schwartz follows up Reservation Road with Northwest Corner. Amor Towles debuts with a novel of New York society in the 1930s, Rules of Civility. And Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! is now out in paperback. " Plus, RSS feeds of new releases. [...]
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The Fall 2011 Session of writing classes begins September 10 at WriterHouse We’ve scheduled an unprecedented five regular 8-week writing classes and six half-day Saturday writing seminars with topics as diverse as humor writing and poetry writing for the reluctant. See the The Fall 2011 Class Schedule for a listing of all the classes and [...]
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A Conversation with Mark Lawrence, author of PRINCE OF THORNS | Literary Musings "I certainly wasn’t writing with publishers in mind, I didn’t even really care what my readers would or wouldn’t stomach. I mean I was interested to see how it went down, but not to the point that I would change what I [...]
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If your website's full of a**holes, it's your fault – Anil Dash "Well, the odds are I've been doing this blogging thing longer than you, so let me tell you what I've learned: When you engage with a community online in a constructive way, it can be one of the most meaningful experiences of your [...]
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Regarding Harry: One Reporter’s Hellish Life as a Young Wizard Lookalike | The New York Observer "Everyone tells me I look like Harry Potter. From young children to middle-aged women, they shout, 'Harry Potter!' at me on the street. When I do not respond they say, 'Harry! Hey, Harry!' They’ve done it for 10 years. [...]
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Students Get Up Close And Personal With Rare Books : NPR "Three stories underground, in the University of Virginia's main library, 60 librarians, collectors, scholars and other bibliophiles divide into small groups. They're barely breathing as they lean over texts that have been around for centuries, like the 1497 Latin edition of Sebastian Brant's The [...]
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Josh Ritter Releases Star-Studded 20-Minute Book Video – GalleyCat "Musician Josh Ritter recently released his debut novel Bright’s Passage. To promote the book, Ritter gathered a cast of Hollywood friends, family members and fans to read the first chapter of the novel. Follow the link to see the full twenty-minute video." The cast is intriguing [...]
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WriterHouse: SPACES AVAILABLE IN TWO UPCOMING COURSES There are still spots available in the second session of “The Writer’s Palette: A Workshop for Rising 7th & 8th Graders.”Instructor Jen Wilson will introduce students to the various tints and hues that writers of all genres use, with a focus on generating a variety of writing, including [...]
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‘Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories, 1963-1973’ — New York Magazine Book Review "If Vonnegut speaks to the eternal adolescent mind, it’s because he so ably inhabits its favorite moods: hellacious pessimism and utopian love. How he balances the two—if he balances them, really—is an open question, and part of the wonder."
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BookBalloon Reading Club July Selection The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet draws us into the redolent atmosphere of those grand 19th-century epics by Melville, Dumas and Sir Walter Scott. Japan remains a favorite subject for this peripatetic author, who began writing fiction in his [...]
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