How to Write a Book When You’re Really, Really Busy | WritersDigest.com ‘I am, as my mother would say, “a busy little beaver.” While writing my most recent novel, I was working full-time, going to school at UCLA and training for a 50 kilometer footrace. I also slept, ate, saw friends, posted on Twitter and [...]
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I am Michael Dirda, Pulitzer-Prize winning book critic who has been called the best-read man in America. : IAmA Michael Dirda on Reddit. Very cool conversation. Critical Linking: May 17, 2012 | BOOK RIOT “‘I’d take off Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. I read it perhaps 25 years ago and have never understood why others hail [...]
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The Hemingway Papers “The legendary writer’s reporting from the Toronto Star archives, featuring historical annotations by William McGeary, a former editor who researched Hemingway’s columns extensively for the newspaper, along with new insight and analysis from the Star’s team of Hemingway experts.” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Abandoning Books with No Remorse | BOOK RIOT ‘I’m a loud and proud book abandoner. That’s right, I will stop reading a book if I’m not enjoying it. I like to say, “life is too short for bad books” because that’s catchier than saying “life is too short to read books you don’t enjoy and/or [...]
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The Millions : The Appeals and Perils of the One-Word Book Title “Ever since I fell in love with Jernigan I’ve been drawn to books with one-word titles – partly because Sonny Mehta loves one-word titles, but mainly because they can be so enviably concise and memorable, so perfect. At their best, one-word titles distill [...]
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The Least You Need to Known by Lee Martin Every time I think I’ve found all the great writing blogs out there, I find another one. Nonfiction writers, check this one out. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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3 outstanding books for your spring reading list Three book recommendations from author Daniel Pink: two non-fiction books about India and Pakistan, and a novel he calls “one of the best novels I’ve read in years.” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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ErikaDreifus.com | Practicing Writing Are you a writer? Then you MUST subscribe to this newsletter: “Welcome to Practicing Writing! Here you’ll find updates on writing and publishing opportunities (especially handy between issues of our popular monthly newsletter). You’ll discover ONLY opportunities that charge no fees, and ONLY publications/contests that will pay for your writing. The [...]
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Biblio’s Bloggins: Wide gulf separates Vonnegut the author and Vonnegut the man “The gulf between the reality of Vonnegut the man and Vonnegut the author was wide, and perhaps to be expected. Author Charles Shields shows how Vonnegut’s experiences – growing up in Indiana with a family determined to shape his career path, caught up [...]
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Why Are Wolf Scientists Howling At Jodi Picoult? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR “Do fiction writers have an obligation to ensure that the science they import into their novels is credible? Or does the creative license that writers enjoy mean that there’s no such responsibility? What happens when a novelist explicitly notes that [...]
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Work in Progress » Blog Archive » Jonathan Franzen: Comma-Then Oh, yawn, it’s JFranz again: “There’s so much to read and so little time. I’m always looking for a reason to put a book down and not pick it up again, and one of the best reasons a writer can give me is to use [...]
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The women-on-women fights staged to keep us occupied | Hadley Freeman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk ‘Let’s start with The Atlantic, a most peculiar hybrid of a magazine these days. While ostensibly being a highbrow, liberal magazine, featuring long pieces about, say, the Arab spring, The Atlantic has developed a taste for commissioning articles [...]
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The excuses of a mean book critic – The Style Blog – The Washington Post “And speaking of zombies: Bland plot summaries, worn out compliments and the requisite quibbles have surely done more than excess bile to drain the life out of the nation’s book review sections. I look longingly at the fist-fights in British [...]
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The Magic of Revision | Christy Strick “Now I’m not talking line editing. I’m talking serious revision, as in re-visioning. Really looking at the story in a different way, from a different angle. It may mean that I slice and dice some of the stuff I like the best, but if that’s what it takes, [...]
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By the Book – David Sedaris, the Author of ‘Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk,’ on His Reading Habits – NYTimes.com “I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. The worse off the subjects, the more inclined I am to read about them. When it comes to fictional characters, I’m much less picky. Happy, confused, bitter: if [...]
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