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Writers, Authority, and The Keith Hernandez Rule

August 12, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 83 Comments

While I have previously tackled the perennial conversation topic/game/complaint Today’s Publishing Industry Would Have Never Publishing Such and Such Genius Old Book Because Everyone in Publishing Today is a Freaking Idiot, there is a component to these complaints that I would like to delve into just a tad deeper. I find it curious that whenever […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: David Foster Wallace, Harry Potter, How to Write a Novel, J.K. Rowling, James Joyce, Lord of the Rings, Moby-Dick, Seinfeld, William Faulkner, writing advice, Writing and Sports

This Week in Publishing 7/16/10

July 16, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 83 Comments

This week in double rainbows I mean publishing… Stephen Parrish pointed me to a NY Times survey of the world of book trailers, those magical creatures that use video to convince us we should read books. While only 0.1% of everyone out there decided to purchase a book via a book trailer, the kids these […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Double Rainbow Guy, E-books, How to Write a Novel, Jacob Wonderbar, James Joyce, Nonfiction, This Week in Publishing, William Faulkner, writing advice

On the Pointlessness of Questioning Whether “X” Classic Book Would Be Published By Today’s Publishing Industry

October 8, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 156 Comments

You know how whenever someone gets disgruntled with the publishing industry they invariably name a classic book and say, “Well, [insert James Joyce, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, other dead white male/Jane Austen here] would NEVER have found a publisher today.” And this is supposed to remind us about the fickleness of today’s crass publishing business, […]

Filed Under: Publishing Industry Tagged With: End of Publishing As We Know It, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Jonathan Franzen, Moby-Dick, Publishing Myths, William Faulkner

Who is Your Favorite Character of All Time?

May 20, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 538 Comments

It’s a simple question that I’m finding nearly impossible to answer: Who is your all-time favorite character in a novel? Sherlock Holmes? Quentin Compson? Jay Gatsby? Zaphod Beeblebrox? Willy Wonka? Leopold Bloom? Ahab? The whale?

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, James Joyce, Moby-Dick, Roald Dahl, William Faulkner, You Tell Me

Where/how do you like to write?

July 11, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 53 Comments

Thanks to everyone who has chimed in during the past few days on the first/third person post and the Holy Grail (so many really smart comments!). The wise crowds have spoken and the crowd says: a Holy Grail that will predict bestsellers is not possible, nor would people really want such a thing to be […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: James Joyce, Life of a Writer, publishing industry, You Tell Me

On ennui

May 21, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 27 Comments

As I’m sure you know by now, Miss Snark has announced her retirement from blogging, and I’d like to extend my own appreciation of her talents and service to the publishing community. Miss Snark singlehandedly transformed this blog from a dusty Internet watering hole into a slightly less dusty Internet watering hole with a mere […]

Filed Under: Genres Tagged With: Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, James Joyce, The Bachelor, writing advice

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