by | Apr 18, 2008 | Literary News
from Publishers Weekly Music as Memoir Life stories with a backbeat. by Mark Rotella — Publishers Weekly In a poem set to music by his lover Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden implored the patron saint of music, “Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions/ To all musicians,...
by | Apr 17, 2008 | Literary News
from The Washington Post Bethesda Start-Up Makes Writing a Little Less Lonely By Kim Hart Washington Post Staff Writer On the Web, everyone can be a published author. Amateur and professional writers alike have found voices in blogs and social-networking profiles,...
by | Apr 16, 2008 | Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness.com Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, April 22: So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel by Leif Enger (Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780871139856/0871139855) recounts the journey of a failed novelist and an...
by | Apr 16, 2008 | Literary News
from the NY Times He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times Philip Parker says he has computers do the substantial amount of repetitive work that is required in the writing of so many books. By NOAM...
by | Apr 15, 2008 | Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness.com Shelf Sample: The Well and the Mine Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts publishes some fine books–American literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, although they say “we won’t turn down a good international title if we find...
by | Apr 12, 2008 | Literary News
snipped from Variety Norman Mailer celebrated at Carnegie Random House stages poignant tribute to scribe By DADE HAYES Norman Mailer was remembered as equal parts novelist, pugilist, activist and patriarch during a touching and lengthy memorial Wednesday at Carnegie...
