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The novel that predicted Putin’s war (This week in books)

April 8, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! People have been searching for answers for Putin’s senseless war in Ukraine, and at least one intriguing piece of the puzzle comes from Mikhail Yuriev’s 2006 utopian novel The Third Empire: Russia as It Ought to Be, which starts with an unannounced war in eastern Ukraine, and culminates in the entire world […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Christian Smalls, Dan Blank, Derrick Palmer, Emily St. John Mandel, Erica Ackerberg, Fifty Shades of Grey, Katy Waldman, Libraries, Lincoln Michel, Lydia Kiesling, Ocean Vuong, Russia, Sands Hall, Tina Jordan, Unions, Wallace Stegner

The Last Few Week in Books 4/15/13

April 15, 2013 by Nathan Bransford 12 Comments

Photo by me. Instagram! Lots of links! But first, in case you missed it last week the Louisville Cardinals won the National Championship, which means Susanne7799 was the winner of the 5th Annual Blog Bracket Challenge! By a wide margin, actually. It also means Ted Cross finished in second place for the third consecutive year. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Fifty Shades of Grey, This Week in Books

The Last Few Weeks in Books 3/21/13

March 22, 2013 by Nathan Bransford 7 Comments

Springtime in Brooklyn First up: In case you missed it on Wednesday, Maggie Mason and I are kicking off a project where we’re writing thank you notes to our favorite writers. Join us in the #ThankAWriter project! Details are here. Meanwhile: Lots and lots of links, so let’s do this quick hit style: Chinua Achebe, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fifty Shades of Grey, literary agents, Self-publishing, This Week in Books

The Last Few Week in Books 1/4/12

January 4, 2013 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

As if my blogging hasn’t sporadic enough with the craziness of the holidays, next week is CES, land of 100″ TVs and 18-hour-work days! Yes, I am headed to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, where the devices of tomorrow are gawked at by the nerds of today. It’s always a lot of fun, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fifty Shades of Grey, This Week in Books, Twitter

What people talk about when they talk about bad writing

November 20, 2012 by Nathan Bransford 59 Comments

One thing about my Fifty Shades of Grey post that inspired some mild controversy was my insistence that it’s not that badly written. What’s interesting about talking about “good” writing and “bad” writing is that when people use those terms, different people often mean different things. When I talk about “good” writing and “bad” writing, […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: Culture, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fifty Shades of Grey

Why You Think Fifty Shades of Grey is So Popular

November 13, 2012 by Nathan Bransford 25 Comments

There were lots of great comments about Fifty Shades of Grey yesterday! I thought it would be cool to round some of them up into a separate post to show what you, the people think of the book that is more popular than pretty much anything ever. First, about that helicopter, which I alleged was […]

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