Claire Messud is Deeply Sorry You Bought Her Last Book And Asks That You Don’t Buy Her New One
Author of "The Complete, Annotated Mysterious Affair at Styles" with Agatha Christie and "Writers Gone Wild" a collection of 200 stories and anecdotes about great writers you didn't learn in school. Ask me anything
May 8, 2013
April 22, 2013
For Books, Less Means More
“The first time I saw a 73-page ‘book’ offered on Amazon, I was outraged,” says New York Times best selling author Michael Levin. “But I thought about how shredded the American attention span is. And I felt like Cortez staring at the Pacific.”
April 22, 2013
How to Survive Kickstarting Your Book
Elaine Lee: “My own project, Harry Palmer: Starstruck, is a sci-fi noir graphic novel and the latest chapter in the Starstruck series I’ve been doing with artist Michael Kaluta, off and on, since the mid-1980s. We’d previously worked through publishers —…
April 22, 2013
How to Sell Books From Your Website
“After 12 years spent building and running book-related websites, I’ve learned a bit about selling books online. Here are some of the most frequent questions I get asked.”
April 22, 2013
RANT | Why Agents Are Hating On Barry Eisler
During my talk, I shared some thoughts on the choices writers have today in publishing — thoughts which, judging from some of the Twitter comments I’ve seen, have caused a bit of upset here and there. One literary agent in the audience, Sorche Elizabeth…
April 22, 2013
Eudora Welty Items Donated to University
Ferrell Tadlock, a clerk with the state Court of Appeals, donated several items related to Mississippi author Eudora Welty, including books, photographs, magazines and monographs.
The collection, valued at more than $13,000, represents all of his…
April 22, 2013
RANT | How David Mamet Is Getting Ripped Off By His Agent
David Gaughran: “Mamet is represented by a major literary agency – ICM Partners – who are just one of many agencies to have signed a deal with Perseus Books-owned Argo Navis. … They offer a portal through which authors’ work can be distributed to all the…
April 22, 2013
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‘Bobby Fisher’ Author’s Circuitous Path to Fiction
Fred Waitzkin reflects on his journey to “The Dream Merchant“: “When I was a teenager, [my mother]…
April 22, 2013
Murakami’s New Novel Sends Readers to Liszt
Murakami’s “Shikisai wo Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, Kare no Junrei no Toshi” (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage), his first novel in three years, hit bookstores on April 12.
The novel refers to the “Years of Pilgrimage” piano pieces by…
April 22, 2013
RIP | Children’s Author E.L. Konigsburg
E.L. Konigsburg, the author of the 1967 children’s book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, about two children who run away from home to live secretly in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, . She was 83. Konigsburg won two Newbery Medals,…
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Home movie footage of Buster Keaton in Paris.
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Moffat's guide to creating a companionMoffat: You know, instead of a companion I only kill every other episode, I'll create one that's killed in EVERY EPISODE.... ...
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See Josh say comedy jokes live and in person!
Here’s a poorly lit photo of me telling dick jokes! Enticing, right?
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I MET MOFFAT AND HIS WIFE!
*EPIC KEYBOARD SMASH*
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The Firehole
Located in Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, CA, in a secluded beach just off the Number 1, lies an opening in the rock that lights up like...
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I would like to get serious for a moment and bring up a recent matter...
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PlayThing a Week 51: Summer’s Over
Isn’t it though? Here’s the thing – this is song #51, and the next one is #52 and I’m freaking out. It was very...
