Lists
June 23, 2011
D.M.V.: An Incomplete List of Writers Who Met Death by Motor Vehicle 21
by Bill Morris
Is it my imagination, or do an inordinate number of writers die in motor vehicle accidents?
May 31, 2011
Kindle-Proof Your Book in Seven Easy Steps! 27
by Garth Risk Hallberg
For the Luddite writer who wants to put her royalties where her mouth is, I offer the choicest trade secrets…plus a Top 10 list of eBook-resistant texts.
May 23, 2011
Boom! Crash!: A Handicapper’s Guide to Panic Lit 4
by Michael Bourne
The winners and the also-rans in the race for the best book on the Financial Panic of 2008.
May 20, 2011
The Perils of Reading Pregnant 26
by Edan Lepucki
People’s protective urges extend beyond the body of the mother-to-be, and into her reading life. If literature is clogged with unhappy marriages, it’s certainly also darkened with dead babies and the complex melancholy of mothers.
May 18, 2011
Migrations: A Reading List 6
by Emily St. John Mandel
Migration in its various forms is at the heart of a great many of my favorite plots in fiction. But beyond that it seems to me that migration, as an idea of motion, is inextricable from good fiction. Your characters must change—they must move, psychically at least, from point A to point B—and the plot must move forward.
February 28, 2011
Getting to Know the Presidents: The Presidential Biography Project 24
by Janet Potter
Much as I love Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, I have a much more personal affection for the likes of Madison and Fillmore.
