Kurt Vonnegut narrates his eight tips on how to write a good story: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if […]
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The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time In my younger days if I heard a book or movie was disturbing or hard to handle I generally took that as a challenge. Most books generally turned out to not be too bad, but occasionally I’d come across something that would leave me with a sick
April foolery of the literary heavyweights | Books | The Guardian From phoney royals to fake balloonists, the best pranks have been the work of the gravest writers And a happy April Fool’s Day to all.
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Adrienne Rich, Influential Feminist Poet, Dies at 82 – NYTimes.com Triply marginalized — as a woman, a lesbian and a Jew — Ms. Rich was concerned in her poetry, and in her many essays, with identity politics long before the term was coined. She accomplished in verse what Betty Friedan, author of “The Feminine Mystique,”
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Harlan Coben Floods the Zone – WSJ.com “The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don’t care if anyone reads it,” Mr. Coben says. “A writer without a reader doesn’t exist.” A good introduction to one of my favorite writers, Harlan Coben. Related Blog Posts:
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Trending: Read ’em and weep… the grisly life of the post-mortem biog – Features – Books – The Independent The funeral’s barely over before the tribute books start appearing – expect Whitney Houston’s any day now. John Walsh examines an ugly industry
BBC News – Adam Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize for book review Critic Adam Mars-Jones has won the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award for his scathing review of Michael Cunningham’s latest work, By Nightfall. The award is given for the “angriest, funniest, most trenchant” book review published in the last year. Mars-Jones accepted
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Hemingway & Gellhorn Trailer: Will HBO Get Hemingway Right? Their upcoming movie Hemingway & Gellhorn is, as the title suggests, not only about the author of The Old Man and the Sea (adapted in 1958) and so on, but also Martha Gellhorn, a writer equally worthy (perhaps more so) of the biopic treatment. And if
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CHARLES DICKENS GOOGLE DOODLE: Classic characters populate today’s logo to celebrate author’s 1812 birth – Comic Riffs – The Washington Post. The Washington Post collects useful information for celebrating today’s 200th birthday of Charles Dickens.
Print Books vs. Ebooks Debate (cont., ad nauseam) Never one to shy away from controversy, Jonathan Franzen recently condemned ebooks as the harbingers of the fall of civilization: “I think, for serious readers, a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience. Everything else in your life is fluid, but here is this
