Fiona Shaw’s novel opens with a couple of flither-lasses, Harriet and Mary, arriving in York during the second half of the nineteenth century, on the run from their harsh lives on the coast.
The story unfolds through two alternating voices; that of Harriet, a young, displaced working-class girl trying to make her way in the world; [...]
Should novelists just shut up and write books? Some people clearly think so. Louise Doughty in The Telegraph.
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Some authors are paying to have their books mentioned in your blog’s comment section. Dear Author has been investigating:
What I think is particularly pernicious about this is that we readers really rely on other readers to give recommendations [...]
John Freeman in the Guardian and Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky in The Kenyon Review argue the death of the novel all over again:
And in the end, it’s not Tony who killed the novel, according to Freeman; it’s the decline of public education, the language of advertising, and the visual tyranny of the screen (television, internet, Blackberry), [...]
Award-winning Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken of PC World resigned on Tuesday over disagreements with the magazine’s publisher regarding stories critical of advertisers, according to an article in CNET News.
Three sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told CNET News.com that McCracken informed staffers in an afternoon meeting Wednesday that he decided to resign because Colin Crawford, senior vice president, online, at IDG Communications, was pressuring him to avoid stories that were critical of major advertisers.
McCracken resigned after 12 years at the magazine. He declined to comment on the nature of his disagreements with Colin Crawford.
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