- Naked lies: David Sedaris, fabricator? Yes, I know it's The New Republic. I'm sorry.
- Can anyone still be optimistic about the future of "serious pubishing"?
- Two books are coming to the silver screen: Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot and Anthony Bourdain's Bone in the Throat.
- 25 famous rejections - perhaps you've heard of some of these before? I think rejections might have helped some - if not all - of these authors.
- Did the late Steve Jobs spook publishers into accepting the controversial agency model for selling e-books?
- NO, one book a year in the e-book era is not "slacking". One book a year is plenty.
- "Jackie the Ripper!" Could the infamous Whitechapel serial killer have been a woman? This book claims she may have been.
- Catholic Church "is not an institution for respectable people", says Hilary Mantel. Ow.
- Taliban poetry. Is surprisingly good.
- Phil "Sussudio" Collins, former Genesis drummer, singer, actor and ... expert on the Battle of the Alamo?
- The pleasure of being read to: the history of audio books.
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Regarding the 'one book a year' article to which you provided the link: It would take me a year just to find the correct and concise words to express my disgust for that concept. Harper Lee wrote one book in her lifetime. 'Team Patterson' cranks out over a book a month. How many James Pattersons would it take to write 'To Kill a Mockingbird'? If a reader needs to gobble up a new book every few weeks, maybe he or she should start looking for more substantive fare. Take a break from the marshmallow fiction! Grrrrrrr...
ReplyDeleteIt's a new era in publishing. Even the length of books, the number to publish, and the time taken to write them are being defined by the age of instant gratification. Though the quality varies...
DeleteThe enemy is swarming over the walls, and so few gatekeepers in the industry try as hard as they used to. Hard to be a hold-out these days.