How to Be Less Boring
At Huffington Post, novelist Matthew Dicks has some good suggestions for making author appearances less boring, including not actually reading from your novel.
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How to Move Your Arms While You Talk
Slate looks at the 1857 book Sanders’ School Speaker: A Comprehensive Course of Instruction in the Principles of Oratory and its illustrations of what you should do with your arms…
When are they going to start playing the cut-off music?
Winning tips on speechifying from the New York Times Opinionator. Teddy Wayne expands on the classic tools of Public Speaking 101 with heartfelt advice like: Imagine everyone in the audience…
Never That Young
“I have all the habits of someone who lived [in New York City] in the ’70s,” Fran Lebowitz tells City Room. “Which is that, if I have a pencil, I…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“How to write sci-fi erotica: Imagine what Mary Shelley would write after fucking Pris from Blade Runner.” At PANK, Kirsty Logan wants to tell you how to write genre. What are…