Bookmark now : writing in unreaderly times / edited by Kevin Smokler.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Smokler, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Authorship.
• Books and reading.
• Authors and readers.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi, 281 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2005]

Summary:

Offering a voyeuristic peek into the private, creative lives of today's 20-something and 30-something writers, this volume sheds light on what their work means at a time when the book business is changing, and yet storytelling via e-mail and weblogs seems more relevant than ever.

Contents:

• Introduction / Kevin Smokler
• Beginnings. Not fade away / Christian Bauman
• Look the part / Pamela Ribon
• Border lines / Stephanie Elizondo Griest
• The invisible narrator / Howard Hunt
• From somewhere down south to South Beach: raw takes on the MFA /Michelle Richmond
• The writing life. Welcome. Grab a broom / Dan Kennedy
• A call for collaboration / Adam Johnson
• As we mean to go on / Kelley Eskridge and Nicola Griffith
• Her dark silent cowboy no more / Neal Pollack
• Your own personal satan / Glen David Gold
• Marginalia and other crimes / Tara Bray Smith
• Security / Benjamin Nugent
• The now. Distractions / Tom Bissell
• If I had a stammer / Meghan Daum
• Putting gay fiction back together / K.M. Soehnlein
• Voice of a generation / Paul Flores
• Ambassadors / Nell Fruedenberger
• The McEggers Tang clan / Robert Lanham
• 121 years of solitude / Paul Collins
• Lying to the optician: the reading experience revealed / Tracy Chevalier
• The future. A computer ate my book / Douglas Rushkoff
• The slippery slope to Margaritaville / Vivien Mejia
• Andrew Krucoff and the amazing paper weblog / Elizabeth Spiers
• Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281).

ISBN:

0465078443

OCLC:

57670183