This week! Books! As you may have noticed there’s a pandemic going on, and it’s upended many of our notions of “real life.” So… what do you do with that as a writer? Writer David James Poissant talked about the struggle (“delusion” in his words) of writing a timely novel in a constantly changing world. […]
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Why do some people become lifelong readers? (This week in books)
This week! Books! As you can see above I recently returned from an exciting voyage to Batuu but I have still been keeping an eye out for good writing and book links back on Earth. I missed the National Book Awards longlist for fiction, and it’s quite a list! Congrats to the nominees: Fleishman Is […]
Audible adds a controversial new feature (This week in books)
This week! Books! There was some news that roiled the publishing world this week, as Audible announced a feature called Audible Captions, which would display text while an audiobook is playing. Ya know. Kinda like an e-book. Publishers and literary agents responded with alarm, noting that Audible had not come to them for permission for […]
This week in books 5/24/19
This week! In the books! It’s been a while since we’ve done a good ole link roundup, but I saw quite a few good links this week and I plan to share them with you herewith. As ever, if you see a link you think people would like, feel free to drop me a line […]
