Revising a novel is like having bugs in your apartment.
Something Someone Would Actually Tweet
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize (and every other prize) winning author, is publishing a story on Twitter. Her use of the second person completely and utterly captures the spirit of the medium.
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories – Rajesh Parameswaran
No creature, human or animal or alien, escapes the terrible consequences of falling in love.
How to Find the Things You Like
My cultural consumption has become a well-oiled machine, generating mostly superb product with only the occasionally dud.
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books! A weekend full of optimism, pessimism, sex, mystery, and mountains and mountains of books.
The Cabins and the Woods and the Brows
“Why do you like this? Why do you want to see this hot girl’s boobs and then see her torn apart by redneck zombies to punish her for showing her boobs? Why are you getting off on all this pain and suffering?!”
Some things change, but some things don’t.
How to read the following books: The Art of Fielding, Fifty Shades of Grey,The Sense of an Ending, His Dark Materials, A Game of Thrones, Lolita, Housekeeping, and anything by Murakami.
Loving an author is different than loving a book. Loving an author is developing an insatiable need to consume everything they have written; loving an author is infection.
Beating a Horse That Will Never Die
Sometimes, when I’m two tumblers of wine in and the only thing on television is a Jonas brother, and the page in front of me is blank, and I don’t have anything to write about, I default to my favorite blog topic — “what horrible thing has Amazon done lately?”