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Will literature survive? – UnHerd
We have fallen out of love with good writing By Mary Gaitskill, June 17, 2022 As a fiction writer who teaches, I often speak about what I love in fiction, what to me makes it powerful and engaging. This is a version of a talk I have been giving for years to students and other…
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The Shifting Unreliability of Memory: A Reading List ‹ Literary Hub
Jo Harkin Recommends Anne Tyler, Meredith Westgate, and More By Jo Harkin, March 2, 2022 Writers are preoccupied with memory. They have to be: a story is, at its most fundamental level, a sequence of memories. You can’t have a plot without memory. Endings need a middle. A middle has to have a beginning. Effect follows cause.…
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Mapping fiction: the complicated relationship between authors and literary maps | Books | The Guardian
In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond Chandler By Veronica Esposito, Wed 19 Jan 2022 07.20 EST From efforts to map Odysseus’s journey to Borges’s commentary on map-making in On Exactitude in Science (where the only sufficient map is in fact as large as…
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Celebrating the Librarians of SFF | Tor.com
By Stubby the Rocket, Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:00am 32 comments 7 Favorites [+] Across fantasy and science fiction (with the occasional stop in horror), there are any number of amazing fictional libraries we’d love to visit—especially to meet up with the guardians of the stacks! After all, what’s a fantasy story without an awe-inspiring…
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Which Scrivener Features Do You Really Need?
“I recently started a Scrivener Q&A column for my newsletter subscribers. One reader, Avril, asked how to determine which features you really need and which ones are distractions. For example, s…” Source: Which Scrivener Features Do You Really Need?
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The Library 100
The top 100 novels of all time found in libraries around the world, as found in OCLC’s WorldCat database. Source: The Library 100
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VIDEO VAULT | Southern Nevada displayed in fiction in new exhibit at UNLV’s Lied Library | KSNV
The Video Vault is usually a place to set the facts straight about people, places, and incidents in Southern Nevada’s past. But our area is also the subject of a lot of fiction. It’s the subject of a new exhibit at UNLV’s Lied Library.Many of the works her . . . See also: https://www.library.unlv.edu/newsblog/2017/02/writers-imagine-las-vegas-our-city-fiction-exhibit.html Source:…
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Review: Stephen King’s ‘Bazaar of Bad Dreams’ pulls us in and then out – LA Times
Stephen King , I’ve come to think, is at his most adept when writing in the midlength range. His big novels — “The Stand,” “It,” “11/22/63” — have always felt a little baggy to me, while his shortest work (he has published more than 200 stories, gathered in a number of collections) can feel sketchy,…
