The Lifespan Of Literary License

from National Public Radio ‘Lifespan’: What Are The Limits Of Literary License? by TRAVIS LARCHUK When an author writes something that’s supposed to be a true story and readers discover he’s stretched the truth, things can get ugly fast. Recall...

Factual Fiction

from The Guardian UK Factual fiction: writing in an information age Imaginative writing now inhabits a multi-screeen world, and novels that don’t acknowledge this struggle to reflect our new era by Ewan Morrison – Friday 2 March 2012 08.45 EST A score of...

Mother Berenstain Gone

from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Jan Berenstain Has Died By Jason Boog on February 27, 2012 5:07 PM Jan Berenstain, one half of the couple that created The Berenstain Bears book series, passed away this weekend. The series began in 1963 with The Big Honey Hunt. This...

Radical Publishing Pioneer Barney Rosset Gone

from The New York Times The Man Who Made Publishing a High-Wire Act Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times In the mostly tweedy, genteel world of book publishing in the 1960s and ’70s, Barney Rosset, who died on Tuesday at 89, was a bit of an outlaw: a raffish,...

Pam Houston’s ‘CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED’

from the Santa Cruz Sentinel Pam Houston, the author of the new novel ‘Contents May Have Shifted’ brazenly challenges the lines between fiction and non-fiction By WALLACE BAINE You might think that the name a novelist gives her protagonist is no big deal....