The Tournament of Books is in full swing, including hilarious judges commentary.
The fifth annual Millions Writers Award is taking submissions for the best online short story published.
Jonathan Safran Foer speaks and people consider him arrogant . . . surprise, surprise, surprise. That’s how I wanted to find him, when I saw him at Duttons in L.A. two years ago, but the guy is so kind and nice and polite and intelligent I couldn’t help but like him.
A new issue of The Quarterly Conversation is up.
Bookslut has an interview with a short story writer who uses “guerilla tactics,” including doing readings on Second Life for people dressed as anime cats. No, seriously. And the interview only gets better.
Ken Wohlrob, former editor of Bully Magazine, is a self-publishing dynamo out of Brooklyn, NY. Rather than trying his tireless hand at submission after submission to publisher after publisher, Wohlrob has been using what some might call “guerilla literary tactics” to get his work out: podcasting, iTunes, Kindle, even the computer game Second Life. Thusly, Ken has been able to release his book of stories, The Love Book as a paperback because of his online efforts.
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It would only be more disturbing if the Anime cats heckled you during a reading. Then again, having them stare at you blankly (kind of like Sylvia Plath) is a bit odd as well…