The Death of the Book Review. The Rebirth of the Book Review. The Book Review Gets a New Set of Clothes and Learns How To Dance.
Everybody has a theory about The Future of Book Reviews. Ed Champion weighs them all in this live-blogged, heated panel at the Book Expo.
Maud Newton is on a roll. First she spots a picture of the reclusive Christian comic book tract writer, Jack Chick. Then she ruminates on the nature of novel structure and the benefits of writing pacts. Follow these links: "Mark and I have a writing pact, and he’s more than upheld his end of it. So I won’t ruminate about my progress except to say that lately I can’t stop thinking about structure. A book fails or succeeds on its architecture, and right now my draft is bloated and wobbly."
Over at Mumpsimus, I just discovered Brian Francis Slattery's debut novel, Spaceman Blues. I loved the site's review of the book, and I was even more excited after I saw Slattery's website. I'm going to try and line up a Five Easy Questions about writing surreal space age immigration novels.
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