by J. Steven Young | Oct 31, 2019 | Books
By J. Steven Young The Wand Whisperer Short Story – Magical Realism What if wands were alive? For one clumsy and inexperienced mage, his life and everything he knows about wands changes when they begin talking to him. Sparkle is an ancient and powerful wand who...
by Julie Carrick Dalton | Sep 18, 2019 | Craft, Editing, humor, Process, Writing
Photo by Bertalan SzürösDo you ever get the feeling that a scene you’re writing, just isn’t going to work? That no one would ever act this way? That no one would ever believe this outcome?Do you ever leave the questionable scene in any way because you need this event...
by Jeff Goins | Sep 18, 2019 | Influence, Podcast, Writing
The best marketing you can do for your work is not to build an empire, but to find a few friends who care. We all want to reach the masses and see our work get into the mainstream. We want to have an “impact.” But the only way to reach the many is to first reach the...
by Author Repost | Sep 17, 2019 | Lit News
The coming Festival Albertine, an annual gathering of American and Francophone activists, intellectuals, writers and artists, will focus on a truly international topic: climate change. The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Albertine Books announced Tuesday...
by The Paris Review | Sep 17, 2019 | Lit News
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by This week at The Paris Review, we’re...
by Leah Price | Sep 17, 2019 | Lit News
Illustration by Albert Robida, for “The End of the Books,” by Octave Uzanne, published in Scribner’s Magazine, vol. 16, no 2, August 1894. Public domain.Increasingly, people of the book are also people of the cloud. At the Codex Hackathon, a convention whose...
by Dave King | Sep 17, 2019 | Craft, doctorow, Genre, literature, meaning, meaninglessness, murakami, REAL WORLD, Writing
Not long ago, a friend who has been reading literary novels for years recommended one to me – Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami – and gave me the Kindle version. Murakami is award-winning and well-reviewed, so I launched into the book with considerable hope.I...
by Author Repost | Sep 17, 2019 | Lit News
Chris Rock, the Emmy-winning comedian and two-time Oscars host, has been talking about race and relationships since he began doing standup in the 1980s. Those who haven’t had seen him onstage will soon be able to read his thoughts on these perennially thorny issues in...
by Author Repost | Sep 16, 2019 | Lit News
“The Melon” is Amy Goldman’s fifth book, and as with her other titles, it’s a visual stunner and a revelation. It represents nine years of cultivating, studying, tasting and having Victor Schrager on hand to photograph 125 kinds of melons at her farm in Rhinebeck in...
by Margaret Atwood | Sep 16, 2019 | Lit News
Lewis Hyde photo: Ruben Cox.Gifts pass from hand to hand: they endure through such transmission, as every time a gift is given it is enlivened and regenerated through the new spiritual life it engenders both in the giver and in the receiver. And so it is with Lewis...
