A writer is someone who likes writing.
At Ward 6, J. Robert Lennon writes: If you’re a writer, you like process. Occasionally I’ll meet a book enthusiast who has an idea for a book. “Now all I…
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Liveblogging BEA
I won’t actually liveblog the panel I’m attending — there are several authors, and they’re reading, and the first one, I fear, is reading too long. Instead I’ll share some…
Litbloggers at BEA. And none of us are typing.
An unplanned convening of litbloggers at Book Expo. From left to right: Dan Wickett (The Emerging Writers Network), Kassia Krozser (Booksquare), Mark Sarvas (The Elegant Variation), Ron Hogan (Galleycat, Beatrice)…
Book Expo is coming
I’ve gone to Book Expo twice before, and still I feel entirely unprepared for BEA 2008. The first year, it was in Washington DC. I stayed at an unfortunately expensive…
Meet me at Jacket Copy
I’m very excited to be blogging over at the Los Angeles Times’ book blog, Jacket Copy, starting, well, yesterday. And continuing daily, along with contributions from the paper’s book review…
Beware of MFAs
Literary agent Colleen Lindsay has posted info on how to submit writing to her. She’s read 96 queries in 48 hours. Some of the worst query letters I’m seeing are,…
can you tell I’m at my office hours?
The National Book Critics Circle has announced its awards finalists. The most entertaining read is Lizze Skurnick’s liveblogging. Most interesting/unsurprising news of the nominees? Joyce Carol Oates is up for…
good guys and troublemakers
The coolest thing I’ve read all day: Mark Sarvas’s first novel is funny and sad, rueful, wised-up and curiously moving. A remarkable debut. – John Banville, winner of the Man…
100 Notable
The New York Times has printed 100 Notable Books for 2007. I’ve read 5, including Ian MacEwan’s slender On Chesil Beach, the hefty Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, and…
I’m catching up and now you are too
On the gossip from the Quill Awards. The hypothetical longlist for the Short Story Prize. Bat Segundo podcasts with Oliver Sacks, Richard Russo and … James Lipton? Mona Gonzales, about…
