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The son, currently in 7th grade, of a friend of mine came to lunch with a book. My friend asked him to tell me about the books he's reading - he's currently reading 4 and all of them involve psychology or astronomy. All were pretty heavy non-fiction. His son then said that kids at school look at...
Has anyone noticed "other stuff" encroaching on the book shelfspace at their nearby big book chain? I visited one last week and thought I accidentally wandered into a toy store. I was surrounded by puzzles, stuffed animals and other doo-dads that seemed to have nothing whatsoever to do with...
Not too long ago I was discussing books with a friend and the subject of fiction intruded into our conversation. We were discussing the books we had recently read and none of them, it turns out, were fiction. "Recent" meant the past 2 -3 years as we live on different continents and don't speak...
Not a great reading year for me (and not a great year in general), but I managed somehow to get these in:
1. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
2. Heidegger's Being and Time by Gorner
3. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
4. How to Read Heidegger by Wrathall
5. Easy Spanish Reader by Tardy...
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I've never gathered the gumption to sit down and write something yet. I seem to have a fear of the process, or something ineffable I can't quite fathom. As a psychic salve of sorts, I thought I'd outline how I think a novel gets written and pass it by all of you writer types. Perhaps...
As the twilight of another year beckons, so share your reading lists and thoughts.
My list (so far):
43. Vox by Nicholson Baker
42. Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 by Schulz
41. The US-Mexican War by Christensen
40. Heidegger's Being and Time by William Large
39. East, West by Salman...
A few years back Philip Roth was interviewed on TV about his thoughts about the future of fiction. He didn't think fiction will last another decade or two because people will find "more compelling" forms of entertainment.
Does anyone agree with this? Is fiction on an inexorable downward...
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So after some one writes a few stories they typically want to see if anyone will take the bait and print their brain droppings. For newbies is the best route still buying Writer's Market and sending out manuscript after manuscript? Has anyone else used a different route? What are the...
This may seem out of place in a writer's forum, but in the recent edition of "Best American Short Stories" Stephen King claims that many of the readers of literary journals are other writers looking not for entertainment but to see what the journals are publishing. He calls this "ucky reading."...
That's not an insult. It's just my website.
I'm new. I've been poking around the forums. I've seen a lot of good stuff about a lot of good authors. But I haven't seen much about Salman Rushdie. Is he still read or talked about or has everyone given up on him after Fury? Also, not much about...