On Tiredness and Peter Handke – interesting post by This Space http://bit.ly/a5CLLl # How to write a novel about consciousness, death, fatherhood and narrative? Invent a chicken-boy! http://bit.ly/cKHBVA # TheAsylum reviews Emma Donnoghue's Man Booker Longlisted Room – http://bit.ly/cBsa9f # Is European fiction really dry and academic? http://gu.com/p/2j3p4/tw # Beyond the shelves of genre – […]
The American Academic Cass R. Sunstein has an interesting argument in his book Republic.com.2.0 Revenge of the Blogs, that the abundance of information, choice, and social networking available on the internet ultimately leads to a more restricted closed culture. For a well functioning system of free expression, Sunstein argues, there are certain requirements that go […]
So, you want to write a thought-provoking novel about consciousness, death, fatherhood and the role of narrative in our lives? What’s the best way to do it? A stereotypical gothic mansion turned into a health clinic run by a mad scientist doesn’t sound like a promising start. A split universe setting whose hero is chick, […]
Great essay on David Foster Wallace, by Wyatt Mason (NYRB) – http://bit.ly/anS07v # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Booker prize longlist announced – http://bit.ly/b9nTEk # Reading Amis & McEwan – leaves me feeling that I and the world have been made smaller and meaner – Josipovici http://bit.ly/d3JlWZ # Powered by Twitter Tools.
They Kill Us for Sport – Lear, Happy Endings, and Niccolò Ammaniti's The Crossroads http://bit.ly/cJ6GTk # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Daisy Godwin’s lament about the lack of redmption in so many of today’s novels – made whilst chairing the Orange Prize judging panel – put her in good company. Samuel Johnson famously endorsed Nahum Tate‘s sugar coated revision of Shakespeare’s King Lear. The play had been too bleak, by far, for a Restoration audience, prompting Tate […]
I think only people who dislike a genre should be allowed to write in it – Joseph O'Connor interviewed by Peter Murphy http://bit.ly/9OQ6yj # If you're on facebook, try following Dublin's Project Arts Centre here http://bit.ly/c0odDL # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Great list of 2010's soon to be published titles (including Franzen, Twain, and Kundera) http://bit.ly/bqsuel # Hugo Hamilton on Greg Baxter's A preparation for death, in the Irish Times http://tinyurl.com/2fukcgd RT @ClionaLewis # The Irish Times looks at the boom in international crime novels – no mention of Antonio Tabucchi though http://bit.ly/9wlAHQ # The BBC […]