Today, we find out what Sam Douglas--an associate editor at Picador--likes to read. His firm has published critically acclaimed novels like Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies and memoirs like Running with Sissors by Augusten Burroughs.
This is my deceptively simple feature: Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a serialized set of weekly interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing...
Jason Boog:
Who are your favorite writers? What are your favorite websites to read for work? What are your favorite sites for reading pleasure?
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Lately I like Susan Sontag, Sigrid Nunez, GK Chesterton, Joan Didion. I don't really read Web sites for work save one: Maud Newton.
I don't read much online. It seems to me like the better writing goes into books, so when I have time I read those. I read Today's Papers on Slate when I can't read the newspaper itself.
Really, I think good, serious writing that matters (to me) takes time and some degree of isolation, some burrowing into one's subject and one's own thinking, and the Web doesn't seem to me to encourage that (not to say it's all that common in magazines or even books either).
Note: If serialized interviews drive you batty, just click here to read the whole interview as it is collected this week...
How cool; I read Maud Newton as well!
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