Quick Hits
June 16, 2011
On Bloomsdays Past 0
by Henriette Lazaridis Power
We brought the world of Ulysses to, say, the Tivoli, or the Grand Canal, or the Art Museum and the Rocky statue.
June 14, 2011
Last Words 13
by Frank Kovarik
When do we, as writers, accept that a piece is as good as it will ever be, even if it’s not that great? When do we decide that a piece will never be good enough to be published?
May 23, 2011
Exclusive: The First Lines of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot 14
by C. Max Magee
A bookish first paragraph kicks off this new novel set to come out in October.
May 19, 2011
Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Air: Reconnecting with Children’s Books as a Parent 10
by Kevin Hartnett
The market for children’s books is probably more resistant to cultural churn than just about any other slice of the consumer economy; it’s a closed circuit that reproduces itself one generation after another.
May 5, 2011
Requiem for a Video Store 9
by Jacob Lambert
By the latter half of the decade the slide was irreversible: if Blockbuster had been injurious, Netflix was a cancer. And so was On Demand, Hulu, and the thousand other ways we now put stories before our eyes.
March 25, 2011
A Writer Without Borders 9
by Bryan Charles
As a reader and writer, the current moment is endlessly confusing to me. Sometimes I feel like I’m on a one-man mission to save publishing, buying books weekly from indies and chains alike, for the sake not only of my future work, but that of future writers, young people far from urban centers, dreaming up stories in Texas or Idaho or Michigan.
