Two For Tuesday: Should Books Be Snackable, Serialized, and Delicious?
Topics discussed: Tim Parks, length, reader feedback (write to us!), Michael Schaub, Ben Carson, thinkpieces, Hillary Kelly, The Way We Publish Now, serialization, cookie cutting (metaphorically), Jonathan Franzen, Harper Lee,… Read more »
What’s the best way to publish “binge-reading”?
LitHub is off to a strong start, already making us forget it wasn’t here six months (or even one month) ago. Yesterday the site ran an article by the great… Read more »
The typewriter that backs up your work in Dropbox: the “Hemingwrite”
MIT graduate Adam Leeb and software developer Patrick Paul of Detroit, Michigan designed a typewriter with e-ink, wi-fi, and cloud storage. The catch? It’s getting a lot of attention before… Read more »
Amtrak’s now accepting applications for its new Writer’s Residency… but it’s asking a lot
Last week, Evan Kindley published an examination of the Amtrak Writers Residency (a topic we covered a couple weeks ago) on n + 1. In his article, Kindley looks at The… Read more »
“Train time is found time”: Amtrak offers residencies for writers
This past week, the idea of writing residencies on Amtrak trains took off. On the 19th, Jessica Gross, Amtrak’s first writer-in-residence (for a few days, anyway), published a short essay… Read more »