In the New York Times, Larry Rohter profiles Open Letter Books.
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No Jackpot Mentality
Posted in Reading
Tagged chad w post, larry rohter, new york times, open letter books, profile, publishing, translation, usa
Blood on the Wall
National Public Radio’s Morning Edition has a segment on the deleterious effects of e-books on readers and writers.
Posted in Reading
Tagged ebooks, lynn neary, npr
Not Too Accessible
Laura Miller of Salon misses the march of weird little marks.
Authors who have eschewed quotation marks include E.L. Doctorow, David Guterson, Charles Frazier, Nadine Gordimer, Kate Grenville, William Gaddis and (sometimes) Raymond Carver.
Why do they do this? I once heard Doctorow tell a group of journalists that if a writer knows what he’s doing, quotation marks aren’t really necessary. “You can tell when it’s dialogue,” he explained. Often enough, that’s true. However, to say that an element of written language can be eliminated without rendering the language itself incomprehensible is not tantamount to saying that the element is superfluous and ought to be abandoned.
Posted in Writing
Tagged laura miller, punctuation, salon, usa
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Recommended with reservations.
Posted in Read in 2009
Tagged crime fiction, gillian flynn, recommended with reservations, three rivers press, usa
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville
Recommended with reservations.
Posted in Read in 2009
Tagged herman melville, melville house publishing, novella, recommended with reservations, reread, usa
When the Editors Hire the Publishers
At The Awl Choire Sicha writes about a curious inversion.
At a bar last night, I was talking to someone smart who made an excellent point: that a very quiet, revolutionary act in the history of publishing had just taken place.
Posted in Writing
Tagged awl, choire sicha, economics, editing, publishing, usa