How much does a writer make? The Rejecter (“I don’t hate you. I just hate your query letter”) breaks it down.
How Much Does A Writer Make?
Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Low Price Kindle
Amazon's 7" Kindle Fire tablet will sell for $199 -- less than half the cost of Apple's cheapest iPad. The color, touch-screen tablet will run Google's Android software and have access to Amazon's app store, streaming movies and TV shows. Additionally, Amazon's announced the launch of the $99 Kindle Touch, and has reduced the price of the standard Kindle to $79.
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Please, Sir, I’d Like Some More Time
Recommended Reading: a piece from the New York Review of Books blog on modern attention spans and what they mean for literature. Hint: it's not looking too promising. Tim Parks closes with a prediction that "the novel of elegant, highly distinct prose, of conceptual delicacy and syntactical complexity, will tend to divide itself up into shorter and shorter sections, offering more frequent pauses where we can take time out. The larger popular novel, or the novel of extensive narrative architecture, will be ever more laden with repetitive formulas, and coercive, declamatory rhetoric to make it easier and easier, after breaks, to pick up, not a thread, but a sturdy cable."
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Maurice Sendak Dies
The New York Times is reporting that Maurice Sendak has died at 83. In part because I shared a name with its main character, Where the Wild Things Are was a beloved book of mine. Sendak's last book Bumble-Ardy, full of chaotic drawings of mischievous pigs, is a favorite of 19-month-old son's. May Sendak's bountiful imagination and heart live on for many generations in his books.
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NYRB’s Spring Reading
Daylight savings time = more daylight to read by, and as luck would have it New York Review Books is having their winter sale, so you have no excuse to be out of reading material. You can stock up on titles 50% off through the end of March / the beginning of actual Spring.
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