Archive for October, 2006
Six Word Stories
Wired (a great magazine) gives us Very Short Stories: We’ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (”For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to [...]
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The Killer Year
I came across the Killer Year website, and it looks pretty cool. I love to hear about writers and others in the publishing world coming together to create new communities. Novels don’t exist in a vacuum and neither do debut novelists.
Killer Year is an elite society of debut mystery and thriller writers. The purpose of Killer [...]
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Lists Are Fun
Toddler T-shirt logos at McSweeney’s.
Plus, Baby Be of Use books.
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What’s New
The new Stephen King talks about his new novel, Lisey’s Story.
Salman Rushdie will join the faculty of Emory in the spring; he will also donate his archives to the university’s library.
Kiran Desai wins the Man Booker Prize.
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