There’s an interesting article in the online version of Wired Magazine about the future of newspaper delivery. Nick Bilton, an editor in the New York Times research and development lab, who doesn’t even receive the newspaper at his home, believes that in the future, newspapers will all be delivered electronically. It’s really not a brilliant [...]
I didn’t catch the full debate, but I did enjoy reading this essay by Kevin Kelly, which asks if serious literature can be read online or if it should be relegated to print books. Well, that’s the gist as I understand it.
It’s a good question. I’ve noticed that there seems to be prejudice against reading [...]
A very sweet lady who attends my church, a couple of weeks ago, asked me if I’d heard of Dana Gioia. Of course, as my regular readers know, I have. She wanted to know how I knew of him and I spent about 30 minutes filling her ear with the war between New Formalism and [...]
Who decides whether a piece of literature is good or not? Is there a committee somewhere that decides by a process of selection? Does it allow for vote by proxy? Is there a monarch or a king that raises his scepter in approbation? Perhaps all the people of the world can gather together and conduct [...]
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that most literary artists, poets included, try in some way to “write for the market.” But I think this is a sorry way to write literature. Beyond sorry. It’s inane.
While all literature is in a certain sense targeted toward a particular market – try writing [...]
Neil Gaiman is the author of several lines of fantasy graphic novels. His first, Sandman, made a historic debut as an intelligent and thought-provoking graphic series. I enjoyed reading it myself in the 1980s and 1990s.
As an evangelical Christian, I feel like I exist in two worlds. In the first world, the one in which [...]
In business it is a common practice to read biographies to learn how other successful people approached their challenges and “rose to the top.” Is it possible to do the same with literature? Can you read all the great books of the past and learn how to write one yourself? If you read every Puschart [...]
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/09/03/online-vampire-novel-leak-sucks-for-author
I’d like to invite you to join a new online community called LitMixx.
LitMixx is a social bookmarking community and a part of the Mixx brand. I started LitMixx to allow poets, fiction writers, and other literature lovers the ability to save their favorite literary reading online in one location and share it with their friends. [...]
This has been on my mind for some time now. I think we’re hearing more and more often how people don’t read as much any more and how they read poetry even less. This is evidently something we’re supposed to be crying over. But I’m not so sure that’s the proper response.
Dana Gioia published his [...]