Archive for April 18th, 2006
Tuesday April 18th 2006, 10:41 pm
Scott Lynch, 27: Living a Writer’s Fantasy
Lynch is American, and was discovered in 2004 by Gollancz publishing director Simon Spanton, who found excerpts from Lynch’s gritty fantasy debut posted on his web journal and snapped up world rights. Two years on, The Lies of Locke Lamora has found an American publisher in the shape of […]
Tuesday April 18th 2006, 10:34 pm
The preempted my Boston Legal tonight to for live coverage of the Queensboro Bridge tram stuck in the air midway between Manhattan and Roosevelt Island. If that sounds like an hour of a different angles of a tram relentlessly not moving while TV anchors mindlessly patter away about how nothing’s going on, you’d be right […]
Tuesday April 18th 2006, 10:05 pm
The Australian: Coetzee throws book at unis [ 11apr06 ]
“Should we be worried that the graduating students are equipped to write novels and stories and plays for today’s literary market but not well informed about the history of these forms or about what has been achieved in the forms in the past?” Coetzee asked.
Subjects: fiction
Tuesday April 18th 2006, 9:58 pm
Lexington | The way we live now | Economist.com
FOR years, Tom Wolfe has been lambasting America’s literary establishment for ignoring the best story around—their own country. America positively pullulates with fantastic stories. And yet its writers, ensconced in their Manhattan lofts and writer-in-residence residences, can’t be bothered to look further than the ends of their […]
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