Tag: Featured
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Publishers Underpaying Authors, Morality Clauses for Authors, and more…
Editors resign over decision to retain author Junot Diaz (STL Today) Three editors at the Boston Review are resigning over the political and literary magazine’s decision to retain author Junot Diaz despite allegations of sexual misconduct. Poetry editors Timothy Donnelly, Barbara Fischer and Stefania Heim said on Twitter last week they’re “dismayed” at the logic…
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Working Class Writers, Science in Crime Novels, and more…
Should You Tell People You’re Writing A Novel? Reddit Users Offer Their Tips (Bustle) Several redditors advised others against telling people about their manuscripts, simply because being in the awkward position of “writing a novel” for five or 20 years can be socially painful. Speaking from a personal standpoint, this does not feel as bad…
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Romance Novels in the Trump Era, Nigerian Authors, “Cockygate,” and more…
How romance novels are getting a makeover in the Trump era (CBC) A day after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, bestselling New York-based author Sarah MacLean said she vowed to use her “very considerable platform” to step up and speak up, as she wants to “make a difference in the world.” MacLean said she realized the book she was…
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Waiting for the Sun to Go Down by Jesse Teller
There is a low hum. A bit of a hiss. Like that first few minutes on vinyl before the song starts. You can hear the song churning out low and slow. You are in the dark now. Lying on your floor with those huge headphones on. Around you, the world is still going. You have…
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Literature Changing Perceptions of Africa, Creative Writing Snobs, and more…
Let’s silence the creative writing course snobs (The Guardian) Writing, like anything – from athletics to nuclear physics – depends on a basic degree of talent, which can be cultivated through training. So let’s stop pretending that devoting a year or two to studying writing in the company of others is anything other than a…
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Flashbacks, Sean Penn’s “Novel,” Amazon Sabotaging Erotica Authors…
Sean Penn’s new novel doesn’t deserve a considerate review — or a reader’s time (Chicago Tribune) But this is not a review of “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,” because it is not a book that deserves to be taken seriously enough to be reviewed. Speaking from personal experience, it is very difficult to write…
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The Resurgence of Dystopian Literature, Understanding China through Fiction, and more…
Deferred gratification is dead? Tell that to fans of serialised novels (The Guardian) “Binge-watch” was Collins Dictionary’s word of the year in 2015. The popularity of serialised long-form television drama was quickly superseded by networks making entire series available whenever we chose, eliminating that enforced waiting period and losing something of its pleasure in the process.…
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‘Bizarro fiction,’ Writing Memoirs, Dismal Sci-fi, and more…
Bizarro fiction is the next trend in the literary world (Study Breaks) Although bizarro fiction has lurked within the bowels of literature’s murky underground for just over 15 years, the genre has seen recent success with the addition of director Don Coscarelli’s film adaptation of David Wong’s best-selling novel, “John Dies at the End,” to…
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Social Sci-Fi, Literary Fiction, Little Known Book Editors, and more…
Literary fiction conveys the human character (The Guardian) As someone whose tiny, grimy literary novels have attracted the interest of the film industry, the truth is the opposite of what Tim Lott (Why should we subsidise writers who’ve lost the plot?, 2 January) suggests; it’s the screenwriter who needs the literary novelist. Plot is easy to…
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YA Fiction, Eco-Lit, An Algorithm Writing its own Sci-fi…
Why So Many Adults Love Young-Adult Literature (The Atlantic) These books are about coming of age, and we’re still coming of age.“What all these YA novels share is a universal coming of age experience,” Jennifer Loja, president of Penguin Young Readers, wrote to me in an email. The bildungsroman—the original term for a coming-of-age story—dates…
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