Number 3 chiller
Jay Griffiths on forests of the mind.
21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels, some more successfully than others.
So be straight and white and male and old, maybe grow a big bushy beard.
Take a ride on the world’s largest floating bookstore. (Question: do you have to pay tax in international waters?)
The 10 most-mentioned songs in books.
English is Not Easy: a beautiful and quirky illustrated guide to the English language.
However, one increasingly pressing question is being asked by today’s twitterati: is this brevity, which has long been practiced—and which Shakespeare famously argues is the soul of wit—now being imposed upon writers by Twitter? Read more
Cory Doctorow argues that giving book buyers the chance to pay what they think is right works.
It’s so easy to mock Blockhead—misreading, misquoting, just plain misunderstanding, but passionately exclaiming his complaint all the same. The novels of F.
Want to be a writer? New research suggests it would help if you have literary parents.
An illustrated origin story of the book.
1. Read the first seven pages and the last seven pages. Seven ways to fake it at book club.
Your favourite TV shows imagined as YA books.
2. ANGER: ‘There are four people at my signing, Mr.
‘Cool’ is a word you hear a lot in conversation with Mr. Sloan. It’s also a word that pops up often in his first novel, Read more
Yesterday we linked to a piece by literary agent Jonny Geller about what agents really want, in which he advised authors to ‘drill [their] story down to 10 words and build up’.