Bookscans Review
22/Oct/11 11:52 AM Filed in: book news
| Writers in the
news
Criticism -
however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to
get in the way of a writer who has anything personal
to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but
if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose
grace (and probably fall off). — J.R.R.
Tolkien
Here’s something new for the blog that I thought I would try for a few weeks: a synopsis of news about writers and books collected from my recent twitter posts (@bookscans).
Literary SNAFU: "How I Was Un-nominated For The National Book Award." Yet another book prize indignity.
20 Oct
Print vs. ebooks: "Participants liked reading a printed book best [contrary to] the data obtained from the study.”
20 Oct
Click through to see some of the strangest day jobs of beloved authors before they were famous.
20 Oct
Salman Rushdie: 'We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
20 Oct
Winged words. After nearly 3,000 years, does the “Iliad” really need translating again?
20 Oct
This is 2011? Right? Missouri School District Bans 'Slaughterhouse-Five.' See tweet (below) quoting Bukowski.
19 Oct
Here’s something new for the blog that I thought I would try for a few weeks: a synopsis of news about writers and books collected from my recent twitter posts (@bookscans).
Literary SNAFU: "How I Was Un-nominated For The National Book Award." Yet another book prize indignity.
20 Oct
Print vs. ebooks: "Participants liked reading a printed book best [contrary to] the data obtained from the study.”
20 Oct
Click through to see some of the strangest day jobs of beloved authors before they were famous.
20 Oct
Salman Rushdie: 'We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
20 Oct
Winged words. After nearly 3,000 years, does the “Iliad” really need translating again?
20 Oct
This is 2011? Right? Missouri School District Bans 'Slaughterhouse-Five.' See tweet (below) quoting Bukowski.
19 Oct
Charles Bukowski: “Censorship is the tool
of those who have
the need to hide actualities from themselves and
from others.” 19 Oct
A pretty decent list that covers a lot of
bases: "52 Travel Books Worth a
Read"
19 Oct