Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
The launch of Ramona Koval’s By the Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life was held last night; W. H. Chong reflects.
The dos and don'ts of author events.
A library-themed Starbucks pops up in Tokyo.
Novelist Geraldine Brooks shares some of the weirder quirks of her ‘more dewy-eyed than Dewey decimal; more idiosyncratic than ISBN’ book-shelving technique.
Robin Sloan on books, the internet and his debut novel, Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
Death By Subtitle: How Extravagantly Fallacious Subtitles Are Ruining Books.
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.
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.
‘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
…a disproportionate number of all idioms are nonsensical, or, at the very least, don’t parse. That’s why they’re idioms. Idioms delight.
