“Writing a novel should be fun. At the beginning, meander. Don’t be afraid to play around. Get lost. Fall down. Get dirty.”
“I would walk with my ear to the walls of the Astute and I could hear the whales. But my heart never left @VeronicaPym.”
Alina Simone’s kind of wonderful “Anatomy of a Breakup” is told through tweets and collages for the Twitter Fiction Festival.
Brian McGreevy’s Hemlock Grove is being turned into an Eli Roth/Netflix series!
Oliver Burkeman talks to The Hairpin about his new book, The Antidote
“Ms. Glück’s new and career-spanning Poems 1962-2012 is a major event in this country’s literature, perhaps this year’s most major.” - Dwight Garner in The New York Times
PSA: @nickcourage’s mondo “Lit Rock” playlist is one of the best things to ever happen to @spotify open.spotify.com/user/ncourage/…
— The Millions(@The_Millions) October 29, 2012
A house built for Etgar Keret, based on the slim proportions of his stories, stands on the same street where his mother faced the Nazis. He writes about it here.
Artist Vladimir Zimakov talks about how he made the jacket art for Alina Simone’s You Must Go and Win
“I wish there was a way that character pieces weren’t perceived as feminine and concept pieces weren’t perceived as more masculine, but that’s just the way it is.”
The Atlantic followed Robin Sloan during his 24-hour book launch for Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and talked to Andrew Fitzgerald and others as well.
The Best is an anomaly from FSG’s past… and clearly the best book on our backlist.
