Reading at Full Volume: Seven Books That Feature Rock Music

I’ve been working on a theory about novelists lately: most of us wish we were rock stars. I’m basing this on a few things, like, for example, who wouldn’t want to be a rock star? Also, with all our anonymity, social anxiety disorders, and how we tend to be at our best while wearing sweatpants […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-06-07 08:52:59 UTC ]

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Can a Video Game Express Modernist Values?

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Crime novelists dish on writing about cops in a moment of reckoning

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Remember when famous writers used to shill for consumer products?

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With book tours scrapped, authors are finding new ways to connect with their readers

Chris Bohjalian, Mary Kay Andrews and other novelists have turned to Zoom and Facebook Live to find their audience. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Reclaim Her Name: why we should free Australia's female novelists from their male pseudonyms

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Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real.

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Charles Dickens: how two novelists gave Great Expectations a second life in the Pacific

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Literature on Lockdown 8: #BlackLivesMatter

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