Take more risks, film industry urged. Encouraging filmmakers to learn their craft is the best way to do it rather than saying we're only going to fund this kind of movie or movies that could possibly sell to the United States ... or really arty movies Spit the Security Blanket
Jeanette Winterson is like a guerilla poet who hijacks her readers and forces them to experience pleasure. The novelist as poet
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Making The World Safe For Literary Fiction
What would happen if a bunch of your favorite literary blogs got together four times a year and picked a book from obscurity, an overlooked literary gem that we'd get behind as a group and bring to your attention, flogging it ceaselessly both here and on our respective individual blogs?
Would it make any difference to you? Would it make any difference to the author and the publisher of the book?
Would it widen a dialogue about literary fiction involving writers, bloggers, editors, journalists and - most importantly - you, the reader?
We think it will. And so, on May 15, 2005, the LITBLOG CO-OP (that's us folks over in the lefthand column) will announce its first READ THIS! selection - and will follow it up with all sorts of interesting posts and discussions, here and elsewhere.
• We're Here To Help [Publishing for success: Argyle Nines ; With so many people contributing twists, this dark fiction is as wild as anything on daytime television ... We all know by now that "reporter" Jeff Gannon is also the sexy sexy James D. Guckert. But is he also... Johnny Gosch? ; The latest Guardian quiz: Catholics in Literature ]
• · The Interpreter isn't essentially about the UN. It's about two people who get caught up in its labyrinthine politics and have to make contact across a gulf of personal strife and cultural difference. In that sense, the UN becomes a kind of metaphor for the personal drama that unfolds and perhaps for the wider human story as well Film: The Interpreter ; I cannot exceed what I see. I am bound ... as the historian is bound by the period he writes about, by the situation I live in Saul Bellow, Writer, 1915-2005 ; Suicidal Japanese are finding like-minded souls online, often with a grim outcome His is the face of suicide in Japan
• · · Putting people in the picture? The role of the arts in social inclusion Arts-based initiatives in alleviating poverty through building social inclusion ; 77 North Washington Street The Atlantic Monthly Cuts Back on Fiction ; The difference between steroids and tequila is alcohol is legal Wallpaper ; A new book by Milan Kundera is now out -- albeit only in French Kundera, l'avis est un roman
• · · · Tim Dunlop: Canberrian Confessions I'm an atheist, thank God ; How to conduct an author tour when the author is, well, not exactly available The Scientist Is Gone, but Not His Book Tour
• · · · · Plagiarizing professors face a variety of punishments Just Deserts?; In a scientific era, is it still possible to believe in God and such events as the Easter miracle of Jesus' Resurrection? Can a rational person see God as both all-powerful and benevolent despite horrendous suffering in disasters like the Asian tsunami? Not just the best Christian philosopher of his time ... (but) the most important philosopher of any stripe Notre Dame's Alvin Plantinga the best Christian philosopher:
• · · · · · Why is it suddenly hot for the crossing of the Cold River to be cool? The Power of Szirine Journal: Slavic Tale about those who swim with death (Help us to reach 40,000 pairs of eyes by May ;-D ; Frank Conroy Dies at 69; Led Noted Writers' Workshop Stop-Time