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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smokler, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Books and reading.

Authors and readers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A few big names in fiction, a handful of below-the-radar faves, and a lot of writers to watch discuss "why books? why now?" in this collective credo about the future of literature

Contents:

Introduction: the future is now / 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 Freudenberger

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: My words consume me / Nico Cary.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-281).

ISBN:

1-282-78877-9

9786612788772

0-7867-3874-X

OCLC:

670411945