Number 3 chiller
An illustrated origin story of the book.
1. Read the first seven pages and the last seven pages. Seven ways to fake it at book club.
Your favourite TV shows imagined as YA books.
2. ANGER: ‘There are four people at my signing, Mr.
‘Cool’ is a word you hear a lot in conversation with Mr. Sloan. It’s also a word that pops up often in his first novel, Read more
Yesterday we linked to a piece by literary agent Jonny Geller about what agents really want, in which he advised authors to ‘drill [their] story down to 10 words and build up’.
…a disproportionate number of all idioms are nonsensical, or, at the very least, don’t parse. That’s why they’re idioms. Idioms delight.
How to write a movie about a writer: or, why are movies so bad at portraying writers?
Should you organise books by colour? Sure, why not.
10. Hear what everyone has to say but don’t listen to anyone (except me). Etgar Keret’s ten rules for writers.
It’s time to knock off and enjoy a cocktail, matched with the appropriate novel.
Related: a brief history of booze and books.
‘A book should be used and reused. It has life, it has a message,’ he said. ‘As a book caretaker, you become a full man.’ Read more
The opportunity that blogs continue to offer for long-form engagement with literature should not be denigrated, but celebrated. John Self counters Sir Peter Stothard’s claim that book bloggers are harming literature.
‘If the mass of unargued opinion chokes off literary critics…then literature will be the lesser for it,’ he said. ‘There is a great deal of opinion online, and it’s probably reasonable opinion, but there is much less reasoned opinion.’ Read more
Today is National Punctuation Day in the US, and to celebrate, the Atlantic has put together a collection of writers' favourite punctuation marks.
