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 »
Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
British Green Party suggests reducing copyright terms; British writers like Philip Pullman not too pleased with British Green Party
Are writers a sustainable political constituency capable of effecting, collectively, massive change? Wait, why are you laughing? It’s true that writers aren’t nearly as powerful a political force as large,… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: Are there too many books?
Topics discussed: warmth, beach vacations, gently crashing waves, rust, Rust, Norwegian domestic terrorism, American domestic terrorism, the long tail, The Long Tail, Stewart O’Nan, Alex’s party skills, cynicism, poker, Authors… Read more »
On editing and being edited
The role, duties, responsibilities, sins, virtues, and other attendant qualities… Read more »
Translating between Englishes: Is it really necessary?
Tim Parks is frustrated. Writing in an excellent post at the NYRBlog, he details the process of editing his new book about Italy and train travel, which will be published… Read more »
GChat, fiction and the pace of life: Do we have a problem?
In the most hilariously excellent insult I’ve seen lately, David Shields has just named Justin Halpern of Shit My Dad Says a more engaging writer than Jonathan Franzen. In an… 8 / Read more »