books
November 7, 2009
- There will be much much more on this over the next few weeks and months, but for right now, head over to Salt's blog to win a copy of Short Circuit - the hot-off-the-press Guide to the Art of the Short Story, edited by my great friend and colleague, the wondrous and extremely hard-working Vanessa Gebbie. Short Circuit includes my essay on flash fiction and I am deeply honoured to be in the ...
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November 7, 2009
- In Neil Gaimen's journal he writes this,"And finally, a link to Joanne Leow's blog. It was lovely to see her again, four years on, when I went to Singapore - it was a great interview, and you can watch us chatting about writing, what I'm currently up to, signings, and why I don't write the same sorts of things twice in a row, at the Primetime Morning site: here's part 1 and part ...
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November 6, 2009
- I have blogged about PAYA and the fantastic work that Harmony, Yan and Josh Berk have done to support YA literature in Pennsylvania. So it was with great pleasure that I had Harmony along with a couple of other dial in guest on my show today.PAYA, Bringing (More) YA to PA, is an initiative started by book bloggers Harmony and Yan with help from Tenner author and PA librarian, Josh Berk, in ...
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November 5, 2009
- I don't have a lot of time, but this week's suggsted topic is near and dear to my heart. I have spent long hours of my life in independent bookstores, browsing shelves, piling and unpiling musty old volumes in search of treasure. That was how I learned to love books - how I cam to collect them. The bookstore is a magic place...I wrote a story about that once.Now they serve a purpose that ...
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November 5, 2009
November 5, 2009
- New Formats, New Literature?I take books for granted. Not individual books. I treasure individual books. I hold onto them; I refuse to give them away or, truth be told, even lend them unless I’ve practically screened the potential borrower as carefully a nominee for the Supreme Court. But I take for granted the fact of the printed book, with its generally three hundred pages, its soft or hard ...
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November 5, 2009
- At some point early on in the marketing of Shimmer, someone at Unbridled, the publisher, asked me to write up a quick blurb about where I like to eat in Memphis. It seemed like a simple request, I'm sure. My response: You of course have no idea how deeply you've stepped into one of the strangest of my habits. I am a person with many particular habits, rituals in a way, each day structured around ...
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November 4, 2009
- The time has come, the walrus said, to solve the problem of death. God has been dead for at least a century. Existentialism has come and gone. Beckett ("I can't go on, I must go on"): in his grave (just around the corner, as it turns out). Derrida, who was obsessed by it: gone. Reincarnation: not too many adepts. Behavior therapy: is there any hope there? Can we ...
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November 4, 2009
- I'll be a real book slut and piggy back my foray into thrillerdom by starting my better-be-a-surefire-hit-thriller novel this month. This morning, in fact. I'll plot it, character it and even have an ending before I start - totally unlike my usual writing method. How many words - hmmm?
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November 4, 2009
- What a great idea to give some oomph to bookstores--National Bookstore Day, November 7, promoted by Publishers Weekly with some local and national media should inspire us all to go browse our local bookstore. It so happens that I have two book events scheduled for that very day in two stores in New Jersey for my new book, Replacement Child (www.replacementchild.com). One at Town Books on East ...
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