When you put yourself out ‘there’ as a writer, when you lasso the title of ‘writer,’ inevitably you are asked your opinion. You are also confronted by a litany of folks who make excuses. Now, I’m not adverse to the excuse bit. I hear and speak them daily. But what […]
We love this list from our friends at PenguinRandomHouse. Who did your favorite author from the past quarrel with? Source
Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the ‘simple shapes of stories.’ Source
Neil Gaiman toured the USA to promote his novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane in Summer 2013. Here are the highlights from that tour. Source
We love this inspirational video from BuzzFeed. A must watch!
Flavorwire posted a very cool post of some literary legends and rare footage of them over time. From the post: Several scribes have reached cult celebrity status with voracious audiences, but others remain an enigma — their voices and image seldom captured, often due to lapses in technological advancement. After […]
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman Rory Hendrix, the least likely of Girl Scouts, hasn’t got a troop or a badge to call her own. But she constantly checks out the Handbook from the elementary school library to pore over its advice for tips to get off the Calle, the Reno trailer park, where […]
Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, shares his love of libraries and describes how, as a child, he would leave the library every day with ‘two very big bags of books’ Editor’s Note: Best. British. Accent. EVER. Source Source
From 92nd Street Y: “So what if we were born up a creek and knocked flat with the paddle, if we ain’t got a pot to piss in and nowhere to put it if we did? Our situation is intolerable, but what’s worse is to sit here and do nothing. […]
Scoundrels: Star Wars by Timothy Zahn Ocean’s Eleven meets Star Wars in this classic adventure set just after Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn, and starring Han Solo, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and more favorites! The Death Star has just been destroyed and Han Solo still needs the money […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.