Jonathan Franzen isn’t the only writer opposing technology and digitization. Jennifer Egan, in a panel discussion last week, compared Facebook to a “huge Soviet apartment block.”
Egan On E-Readers
The Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans
The Iowa Review will begin accepting submissions for the Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans on April 15. The award honors creative writing by members of the U.S. military, and it’s open to both veterans as well as active duty personnel.
Drawing Connections
Stephen J. Gertz shows off some of Bukowski's artwork; Sketches of F. Scott drawn by Zelda Fitzgerald and a portrait of their relationship by Anne Margaret Daniel; An interview with three of the more than 130 artists involved with The Graphic Canon, a series of illustrated literary classics.
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Harry Potter on Kindle
Pottermore is open for business. J.K. Rowling's boy wizard books are now available on Kindle for the first time ever.
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Raunchiness in YA
Tracy Clark-Flory has written a defense of "raunchy" teen literature for Salon.
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Goodreads Celebrates Its Tenth Birthday
"We started with just the two of us, and now it’s the largest reading community in the world.” Publishers Weekly interviewed Goodreads founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler about the site they founded 10 years ago, which now boasts 65 million members. Check out our own Edan Lepucki on Goodreads' humble beginnings.
Serializing in the Digital Age II
City of Quartz author Mike Davis is writing a biography of the Los Angeles Times' bygone publisher Harrison Gray Otis. Appropriately, the installments will be serialized by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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The headline’s a bit misleading isn’t it? She says e-readers are “fine”…
Amended — thanks for the heads up!