Apologies for the scarcity of posts this week. I was up in Canada for a few days. But without any further ado, a roundup of stuff that has happened in my absence.
A new Open Letters for the month of October.
Oxford University Press is publishing “As They Say in Zanzibar: Proverbial Wisdom from Around the World,” but it’s less “Proverbs for the Bloggers” than it is general advice for all writers.
Dan Wickett holds court with upstart publishers (really, really brand spanking new ones), one of which I’ve talked about here in regards to their Interactive Epistolary book (Publisher Hotel St. George).
VideoJug has videos about researching novels and finding agents. If you cruise around the site, you’ll kind of discover it’s like a funnier video version of Wikipedia. Whatever you need to know, there’s a video to teach you.
For the ten year anniversary of Summer Literary Seminars (in St. Petersburg — with a relatively new literary journal), they have a video explaining the program.
Just came across this David Foster Wallace video where he reads from “Getting Away From Pretty Much Being Away From It All.” If you never got to see him in person, this is the closest you can get (and the audience is quite responsive, laughing away).
In honor of banned books week, John Crace offers five digested reads of famous banned books (his summary of “Ulysses” is particularly funny).
