I questioned for a while whether to write about this on my blog. Would editors to whom I am, via my agent, submitting my manuscript be put off by my discussion of literary fiction and technology? By pondering aloud whether to pursue an e-book route or not would I be pushing potential publishers away? But [...]
Archive for February, 2012
To e or not to e: the dilemma of a so-called literary writer
Posted in Books, Writing, tagged ebooks, Faint Promise of Rain, Grub Street, literary fiction, Nathan Bransford, Paul Levy, publishing, self-publishing on February 20, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Trailers, books, stories, hooks
Posted in Books, Writing, tagged book trailers, Faint Promise of Rain, Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes on February 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I last wrote about the book as object. Not so much the content of books, but their physical being, their presence in the landscape of one’s life. This week, after helping K with an assignment in which she had to use a little drawing and as the starting point for a whole story, and after [...]
The book as object and time capsule
Posted in Books, Moments, Observations, tagged books, memories, The Far Pavilions on February 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I am currently reading MM Kaye’s The Far Pavilions. Because it is close to 1,000 pages long, and because my reading time these days is relegated to the late evenings, when I’m so sleepy that sitting down to read inevitably leads to drooping eyes and a slipping book, “currently” has been going on for a [...]
