The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“I feel that for writers, an obsession with what is elegant or what is a cliché or not a cliché can become very inhibiting.” Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro stands up for cliches. (via Bookninja)
“Laughs were out, torture porn was in.” Colin Bateman wonders what happened to humor in crime fiction.
GIANT wants to know what you would miss most if civilization were dismantled.
Hobart has a roundtable discussion of authors talking about publishing their first book. (via LHB)
At PANK, why you aren’t ready to be a writer. Read this one. It’s very good.
June 6th, 2010 at 9:53 am
GIANT, I think I would have a three-way tie in what I would miss most if civ. (Western Civ.?) were dismantled: libraries (a place to get free books w/o five finger discount), electricity (just cuz now I’m pretty used to it being around), and ice cream (though I don’t eat i.c. all that much it would be sad if none existed). I’m just imagining:
all those lonely books, all the rich candle makers
rubbing their bellies who used to be
@ home or the Farmer’s Market all skinny,
and all the perverse, surreal scenes
of melting ice cream in
stores, and mini marts,
and non-functioning frigs…:(