Suddenly, a Knock on the Door author Etgar Keret shares “Ten Rules for Writers” with Rookie.
Hear what everyone has to say but don’t listen to anyone (except me).
A Budding Fan
In 1964, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin wrote Marvel icon Stan Lee a fan letter.
All Apostrophes
Are you the kind of person who’d pay good money to hear a cover of Nirvana in a Chekhov play? If so, the Young Vic has your number.
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“Time is the substance from which I am made.”
Yesterday was Jorge Luis Borges‘ 112th birthday, and you can celebrate belatedly by reading his Paris Review interview and his treatment in The New York Review of Books.
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Amazon’s Top 100 of the Year
Amazon is tweeting its top 100 books of the year today on its Twitter account. (Thanks, Darryl)
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Bad for Books
“The idea that a ‘book of the year’ can be assessed annually by a bunch of people – judges who have to read almost a book a day – is absurd, as is the idea that this is any way of honouring a writer.” Amit Chaudhuri in The Guardian about why the Man Booker Prize “is bad for writers.” And in these pages, Mark O’Connell asks why we care about literary awards at all.
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I always dislike the “rules for writers” tripe, but these are the truest things I’ve read by any writer on the act of writing.