A Salon reader asks:
The thought of publishing the novel terrifies me. However, I do long to be published. I would not be happy just writing for the sake of writing. I want to write to be heard. It’s just that I’m afraid of being heard, as much as I want it.
. . .Have any suggestions?
Salon answers.
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Recommended.
Michael Dirda at the Washington Post reviews The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers.
The Print On Demand (POD) crowd has grown (like horse shit grows mushrooms; sorry) a critic. Snideness aside, if the critic is serious and works as the lead editor of a small press as he claims, then this Web log will prove to be an interesting experiment.
The London Review of Books has a review (surprise!) of The Echo Maker by Richard Powers.
The New York Times has an article on the decline in corporate funding for the arts.
When companies do support culture, they are increasingly paying for it out of their marketing budgets, which means strings are attached to the funds: from how a corporation’s name will appear in promotional materials, to what parties it can give during an exhibition, to the number of free or discounted tickets available to its employees.
National Public Radio’s Web site covers a series of Oxford-style debates called Intelligence Squared U.S.
