Dalkey Archive conversations with
William Burroughs,
Angela Carter,
Robert Creeley,
William Gaddis,
William H. Gass,
Danilo Kis,
Harry Mathews,
Richard Powers,
Raymond Queneau,
Hubert Selby,
William T. Vollman,
David Foster Wallace, and
many other writers.
posted by Iridic
on Oct 12, 2008 -
9 comments
Booktribes is a new site from the creators of
writing site Abctales where bibliophiles can compile lists of every book they've ever read. Replete with a simple, intuitive interface, compiling your life's reading list becomes strangely addictive, and for the whole of March, the best comment of the day on this as-yet underpopulated site wins a copy of David Mitchell's
Black Swan Green, with the best comment of the month winning the entire 21 volume Sceptre Collection. And if you're worried your reading list isn't up to scratch, don't panic -
you can always cheat.
posted by RokkitNite
on Mar 3, 2007 -
20 comments
Star Trek: Voyager fanfiction. For years, people have asked themselves, what would happen if certain crewmembers hooked up? Endless combinations have been thought out and pondered, but perhaps the most popular of all, Janeway and Seven of Nine, has been given the full treatment here. Possibly not safe for work (especially the "R" rated stories), because you could be carried out as you laugh yourself to death. A look into the bizarre and often highly amusing world of fanfiction.
posted by insomnyuk
on Oct 19, 2003 -
66 comments
Is It Fiction If It Says "Fiction" On The Cover? Jorge Luis Borges brilliantly obscured fact and fiction presenting fiction as fact. Things seem to have swung round 180º and fact is now increasingly being sold as fiction. This certainly seems to be the case with Siri Hustvedt's
What I Loved. She's
Paul Auster's second
wife and... Well... now
even critics, like The New York Observer's
Joe Hagan have joined the fun, as Slate's
Katie Roiphe duly noted. Fact is now presented as fiction, without the traditional disguise of the
roman à clef. I think it's sad. In fact, it's an attempt on the life of imagination itself. Perhaps these authors who write memoirs masquerading as novels could be sued under the Trade Description Act? [
With thanks to the always excellent Literary Salon weblog. Thanks to ColdChef for pointing it out to me.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Apr 23, 2003 -
28 comments
'Literature of fact' The high wall which seperates fact and fiction has a small door in it through which people can step. A piece which discusses how someone writing a supposed eyewitness account of an event always tends to fictionalise, even unconciously, in order to make the subject interesting, the idea being that just because a book is in that section, it might not actually be completely non-fiction.
posted by feelinglistless
on Nov 16, 2002 -
12 comments
What DOESN'T this guy do? He writes
novels,
screenplays, and
old school radio dramas. In his spare time he records
sci-fi inspired avant-garde electronica,
trippy ambient stuff, and produces albums for
other bands. He meshes
spoken word and noise-pop , and with his old band, the unapologetic New Romantics
Oo Oo Wa, produced
an absolute wanker masterpiece, and ended up getting signed by the
same guy who gave the
Smashing Pumpkins their first record deal. Of late, he just turned up on
Electric Lash: A Tribute to The Church. Creative genius, or too damned much Starbucks?
posted by timsteil
on Nov 5, 2002 -
8 comments
