Book Riot did a cute post on, Holiday Villain Throwdown: Grinch vs. Scrooge
We Like Big Books (When They’re Fiction?) I think this is simply the experience people have had with longer non-fiction. In an academic setting, long non-fiction is dull. I challenge my regular readers to pick up a longer non-fiction book and give it a go. Suggestions for this will be at the end of the post.
Andrew Sullivan asks, Is Amazon Killing Literary Culture?. In short, no. Amazon is not killing literary culture. It's simply reacting to a market that wants what it wants. Literary culture is bound and determined to catch up. The same arguments have been made about literary culture after each new innovation. We need to stop worry about it and start figuring out what the new literary culture is going to look like.
An Against Amazon Tumblr. Some of the arguments are good some of them are bad. We'll see how this works out.
Finally, Booze And Prose. Does drinking make for a better writer? In my experience I've found that drinking distracts me from writing. I'm not able to focus.
Suggested non-fiction readings:
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
We Like Big Books (When They’re Fiction?) I think this is simply the experience people have had with longer non-fiction. In an academic setting, long non-fiction is dull. I challenge my regular readers to pick up a longer non-fiction book and give it a go. Suggestions for this will be at the end of the post.
Andrew Sullivan asks, Is Amazon Killing Literary Culture?. In short, no. Amazon is not killing literary culture. It's simply reacting to a market that wants what it wants. Literary culture is bound and determined to catch up. The same arguments have been made about literary culture after each new innovation. We need to stop worry about it and start figuring out what the new literary culture is going to look like.
An Against Amazon Tumblr. Some of the arguments are good some of them are bad. We'll see how this works out.
Finally, Booze And Prose. Does drinking make for a better writer? In my experience I've found that drinking distracts me from writing. I'm not able to focus.
Suggested non-fiction readings:
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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