City University in London is launching the UK’s “first creative writing masters dedicated to crime and thriller novels.” The degree program will allow 12 to 14 students to focus on crime writing, the UK’s second biggest genre, which raked in £87.6m in 2011.
Suspenseful Degree Program
Jacqueline Woodson on the Power of Changing the Narrative
Jacqueline Woodson shares how she structures her days, from her reading habits to how she organizes her thoughts.
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Mindwiping Technology
This week in book-related infographics: a look at the future according to science fiction.
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Writing to Win
Adam Gopnik at the New Yorker comments on why we still write to win prizes (and hails Mario Vargas Llosa for having “a lively personal life that includes once punching out another future laureate…Gabriel García Márquez, reportedly over something to do with Mrs. Vargas Llosa. The Nobel thus not only crowns a career but provides the basis for a fine future Javier Bardem/Antonio Banderas movie.”)
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….and the joke may just be on you.
Aaron Wiener for Slate on attending a 24-hour long play in Berlin based on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. And we thought three to four hours of DFW was a marathon.
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