“If I said, ‘Hey your syntax is a little ‘wonky,” they didn’t know what syntax was. And this makes it kind of hard to discuss writing if you don’t have the vocabulary of the very elements of your work – which is how the English language is put together, and what constitutes a sentence and a non-sentence and so on. And they were really afraid of semicolons! The semicolon struck terror into the hearts of many grown women.”
Category: words
‘Domestic Suspense’ Novels – How Women Writers Revamped Crime Fiction
As opposed to the hard-bitten, urban lowlife milieu of male writers such as Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane, “the terror is lurking either in the home, or just outside of it, in the periphery. It makes everything seem unreliable … Even relationships that are supposed to be bedrocks, like marriage, like family, like friendship, or even in some degree, the workplace.”
How Many People Need To Buy A Book To Make It A ‘Success’ In The U.S.?
“Three thousand’s not bad.”
The Sculptor Who Wrote A Graphic Novel Exposing The London Tourists Never See
“Pokryszka, 38, is a poet, painter, cartoonist and ceramicist. She also has a degree in sculpting. At home in Poland, she ran her own gallery, taught art and her work sold well. In 2008, aged 31, she moved to London, she says, to broaden her horizons and develop her art. But she also needed to earn a living. She had no relevant references, no English, ‘Just “hi” and “bye”,’ she smiles. ‘I was very happy I found a job.'”
You’re Way More Likely To At Least *Open* A Book You Bought If It Was Expensive
And much more ebook data, including: “Some books glue readers to the page with completion rates at 70 to 90 percent—well above the norm — whereas, for other books, it might be 20 to 40 percent. Readers are generally more likely to finish a plot-driven genre novel than they are a literary one.”
The Writer Who Would Be Thomas Pynchon (Is He, Under Pseudonym?)
The progenitor of this novel, its faux leather back cover attests in urine-yellow type (a hue and liquid one finds in the narrative as well), “is an independent author of idiosyncratic fiction. His work has been published under multiple pseudonyms. Including this one.” Adrian Jones Pearson. He is on Facebook, of course.
4,000-Year-Old, Eight-Foot-Long Egyptian Manuscript Rediscovered
“The oldest Egyptian leather manuscript has been found in the shelves of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where it was stored and forgotten for more than 70 years. Dating from the late Old Kingdom to the early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000 B.C.), the roll measures about 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) and is filled with texts and colorful drawings of the finest quality.”
More Personal, More Political, More Varied, More Viral – The Obituary Is Changing
From a family-placed obituary in Maine that dealt openly with the deceased’s heroin addiction and the closure of the state clinic that was treating her (it was noticed nationwide), to the news obituaries (now less strait-laced) that run in big-city papers, the genre is getting multiple makeovers.
The Tolstoy of the Zulus. The Citizen Kane of Video Games. Subsumptive Analogies Are the Hitler of Figurative Speech!
“If garden-variety similes serve to equate two things, these lopsided comparisons force one term to exert twice the gravitational pull of the other. Call them subsumptive analogies. Condescension is usually baked right in.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sally Mann Lead List Of National Book Award Nonfiction Nominees
“The nominated works, which were announced on Wednesday, tackle a diverse array of subjects, and include a book that explores the rich inner lives of octopuses; a deeply researched account of the outpouring of grief that followed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; and a natural and cultural history of rain that, according to one critic, ‘will make a rain fanatic out of anyone.'”