Adopt a Typewriter
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From the founders of Ashland Creek Press comes this public service announcement about the writer's most cherished yet endangered object: the typewriter.
Genre: Fiction
Anatomy of a Book
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This helpful video from AbeBooks demystifies the terms used to describe the physical parts of a book, including boards, hinge and joint, leaf, endpapers, book block, and plates.
Write the Small Print
In honor of Robert Walser's Microscripts, write a story (in as small as print as possible) on previously used paper, allowing whatever use the paper previously served (letter from a family member, etc) be the inspiration for the new story.
Agents on the Move
Publishers Lunch reports today that literary agents Amy Hughes and Ethan Bassoff have moved to new agencies. Hughes moves from McCormick & Williams to Dunow, Carlson and Lerner where she will specialize in representing nonfiction writers, including memoirists; Bassoff moves to Lippincott Massie McQuilkin from InkWell Management and will continue to focus on literary and commercial fiction, as well as narrative nonfiction.
Chewing Tinfoil
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Brock Davis animates "OK" by Matt Sumell in Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation.
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Catalogue of Curiosities
Immerse yourself in the music, films, art, and other points of inspiration that set off the spark for our twelve debut poets of 2011.
Small Press Points
Small Press Points highlights the innovative and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features Dorothy, a publishing project, which aims to publish books “of slightly different aesthetic sensibilities but equal wonderfulness” written by women.
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Stanley Kubrick's The Great Gatsby
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Students in a high school Advanced English class produced this short film combining the general plot points of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby with the filmmaking style of Stanley Kubrick, specifically in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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December 29
Ruminate on the past year, remembering both your achievements and your failures. Write a story about one of your failures or regrets from the perspective of someone other than yourself. Consider rewriting the past, to transform this incident into an achievement by changing the facts around it or by changing the way your protagonist perceives it.
The Importance of a Good Title
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This trailer for Alex Gilvarry's From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, forthcoming from VIking in January, has a little fun with the debut novel's rather long (and memorable?) title.
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