The Wednesday Web Browser for Writers
The fact that I live in NYC by no means makes me an expert on literary life here. So I’m delighted to see the latest addition to the Poets & Writers City Guides: New York City!
I’ve just finished reading an advance reading copy (provided by Coffee House Press) of Ben Lerner’s novel, Leaving the Atocha Station. Since I have no idea when I’ll be able to offer cogent commentary of my own on this most intriguing work, I’ll point you to David Shields’s contribution for the Los Angeles Review of Books in the meantime. (But stay tuned: I do have a review of another Coffee House book in the works.)
Fadra Nally discusses “How to Get Unfollowed on Twitter.”
Another social-media tidbit: In “When Students Friend Me,” Cathy Day offers a sample text that other teachers might adapt to explain their social-media policies on syllabi.
I’ve read a number of commentaries sparked by the recent release of the film version of Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help. Nothing is quite like Roxane Gay’s essay for The Rumpus.
Kelly James-Enger suggests “5 Ways to Take Your Freelance Career Seriously.”
Remember my explanation re: how I got to know author Rebecca Makkai? Here’s a lovely essay that Rebecca has written about the online community where we “met.”
And, for what it’s worth, readers who want to get their hands on a copy of Ben Lerner’s “Leaving the Atocha Station” can enter this week’s Friday Freebie contest at The Quivering Pen blog: http://davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com/2011/08/friday-freebie-leaving-atocha-station.html
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