Recommended Reading: The inimitable Umberto Eco on how to travel with a salmon.
The Salmon Is Inedible
More YA for Grownups
The Atlantic is kicking off its new series, YA for Grown Ups, with an examination of "The Greatest Girl Characters in Young Adult Literature." Obviously The Hunger Games's Katniss Everdeen is up there, but don't worry, Ramona Quimby makes the list too.
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NaNoNoMore
For all my fellow NaNoWriMo failures, here's how not to write a novel, romance or otherwise.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Aira, Wallace, Costello
New Directions releases César Aira's The Hare this week. The novel was featured on our Great Second-Half 2013 Book Preview not long ago. Today also marks the release date for David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's Signifying Rappers, which is being re-released by Little, Brown.
A Fanfiction Guide
Fanfiction has been gaining mainstream popularity and cultural heft - just take our own Elizabeth Minkel's Year in Reading post as evidence. For those of us with less experience in the fic community, Vulture has assembled a comprehensive "Guide to the Fanfiction Explosion," complete with infographics on Harry Styles fic, an explanation of why Annie Proulx isn't thrilled about Brokeback Mountain spinoffs, and, of course, a syllabus for further reading.
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