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