Second Act lists the renowned literary one-hit wonders, including John Kennedy Toole, Sylvia Plath and Ralph Ellison. (via AuthorScoop)
Literary One-Hit Wonders
Reading With Our Ears
"But was I actually reading? I regarded myself as a reader, but were these really books?" In LitHub, James Tate Hill pens an essay about reading while visually impaired and the questions it raises in a print book obsessed world. Pair with: our own Bill Morris on hearing an actor narrate his novel's audiobook.
Betting Big
The Wall Street Journal explores the phenomenon of the million-dollar literary debut. Pair with Edan Lepucki’s Millions interview with her agent about publishing a first book.
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The Lost City of Chabon
Michael Chabon teases us with a synopsis of his "wrecked" 1,500-page novel, Fountain City (to be excerpted in a forthcoming issue of McSweeney's).
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The Gallery of Lost Art
The Gallery of Lost Art is “an online exhibition that tells the stories of artworks that have disappeared,” and my-oh-my is it a doozy of an internet diversion.
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Where Have You Been
Recommended Reading: Mark L. Keats explores “international adoption as resettlement.”
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Well-informed ghosts
Kurt Anderson on the difference between writing a novel in first and third person voice: "Most third-person narrators are less like omniscient gods than exceedingly snoopy, well-informed ghosts. "
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