I’m over at Bookslut this week as a guest blogger. Bookslut remains one of my favorite litblogs; Jessa Crispin and her gang do great work there. If you are in the neighborhood, swing by. Feel free to drop me a line with bookish tips and lit news. This is also the week I get back… Continue reading »
Archives for Reading and Writing
The Soul of an Old Machine
I hit an unexpected and unwelcome writing hiatus this past month when my netbook stopped working. I want to say that the netbook died or that it decided to quit on me, but that would be giving it a life and a sense of being that it doesn’t deserve, much as I loved it. (And… Continue reading »
Eight Pretty Good Reasons to Write (and Three Not-So-Good Ones)
There was a time when every journalist starting out got some version of the fire-in-the-belly speech from his or her editor. The speech went like this: Writing’s a tough game, kid. The pay’s as short as the hours are long. The world doesn’t give a crap about your deathless prose. So if you don’t have… Continue reading »
The Way We Read Now
Keeping a promise I made to myself when I was down with pneumonia over the holidays, I have been reading again. On one level, I never stopped reading. I read all the time: newspapers online and off, blogs, scholarly and popular journal articles, tweets, reports, more blogs, more articles. I read books and portions of… Continue reading »
The Kids Are Alright, They Just Don’t Have Time (To Read)
Here’s some good reading-related news: Contrary to what a lot of librarians (and other people) believe, college students still like to read. They just don’t have the free time to do it as much as they’d like. So say Barbara Fister and Julie Gilbert, two librarians at Gustavus Adolphus College, in “Reading, Risk, and Reality:… Continue reading »
