Literary Lynching Goes Online
...ince Sept. 11, authors Susan Sontag, Michael Moore, Barbara Kingsolver and others have been criticized by some in the media for making statements and writing essays critical of the U.S. government.
Speak your truth at the wrong time and you get whacked, said columnist Pat Holt, describing the practi......more...Blah, Blah, Blah and Blog
...se blogs. You know, fascinating. I don't give a flying ... whatever what you ate. Don't tell me you have a flat tire. And if this is how boring their writing is, I can't imagine how boring they must be to talk to in general.
Even though Dvorak's column was not well received by bloggers, several echo......more... Reading on the Net With Boys
... and more in M.J. Rose's notebook.
By M.J. Rose
2:00 a.m. Feb. 12, 2002 PDT
Boys consistently score lower than girls in national tests of reading and writing, and Jon Scieszka thinks he knows why.
My experiences as an elementary school teacher for 10 years and writer for kids for the last 12 years m......more... Don't Go Gently Into That SMS
...ith ac/dc going through. / I sit by him in chemistry, / it splits my atoms / when he smiles at me.
Text messages combine the pleasures of reading and writing with instantness and a handy little gadget, said Andy Wilson, one of the contest's judges, in an e-mail message. It's almost a conversation, b......more... E-Books Go Back for the Future
...ed out with a vision of self-publishing that was a little misguided on my part. It is highly branded, highly credible, high-quality stuff that sells.
Writing is hard. We are technologists who approached this and were perhaps a little naive about that.
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Still gung-ho on self-publishing: In an effo......more... |