Romance writers: The Romance Writers of America, Utah chapter, will hold a winter critique meeting Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Bountiful Library, 725 S. Main St.; members will meet from 10 to 10:55 a.m. at the library. The meeting will help edit the work of those interested in entering the RWA’s [...]
10
Jan
Debut novelists often experience difficulty finding a quality publisher. One of the few quality publishers concentrating on quality first fiction is Unbridled Books, headquartered in Denver. With publication of Michael Pritchett’s debut novel, “The Melancholy Fate of Captain Lewis,” Unbridled has again introduced an extraordinary writer to the world.
Pritchett teaches fiction writing at the [...]
24
Dec
Special-effects budgets are one thing writers don’t have to worry about when they set about creating Highly Unusual Worlds. And in the three fall-season debut novels reviewed below, the Highly Unusual is the order of the day.
“Bowl of Cherries”
by Millard Kaufman
McSweeney’s, 326 pp., $22
The narrator of this rambunctious picaresque novel is a teenage Yale dropout [...]
24
Dec
Author Norman Mailer, who penned ‘The Naked and the Dead,’ dead at age 84
Posted by admin Published in Romance NovelNEW YORK %26#8212; Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country’s literary conscience and provocateur with such books as “The Naked and the Dead” and “The Executioner’s Song” died Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. [...]
19
Dec
It is a peculiar feeling to read a debut novel knowing it is also a closing chapter. Just weeks after submitting her manuscript, Belinda Starling died aged only 34, leaving behind a husband, two small children and one lovely work of fiction, The Journal of Dora Damage (Bloomsbury %26pound;12.99, pp445)It is 1859. Dora’s husband Peter [...]
19
Dec
I’ve long been a fan of higher hokum as long as it’s well written. (Yes, I do still think Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire is a great read - and as for The Magus …) Plus, I’m always interested in crime fiction that pushes at the edges of the form. So I approached South [...]
19
Dec
The term ‘literary mystery‘ is much misused. Sometimes, a literary mystery is simply literate; at other times, there isn’t much mystery. Rebecca Stott’s debut novel, Ghostwalk (Weidenfeld %26 Nicolson %26#163;12.99, pp304) , however, is not only a real literary mystery, but it is also something of a novel of ideas, combining interesting thoughts about Isaac [...]
17
Dec
Author Norman Mailer, who penned ‘The Naked and the Dead,’ dead at age 84
Posted by admin Published in Book TourNEW YORK %26#8212; Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country’s literary conscience and provocateur with such books as “The Naked and the Dead” and “The Executioner’s Song” died Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. [...]
17
Dec
“Literary Arts” covers a wide span of activities at this year’s Bumbershoot, as writers mix it up with singer-songwriters, sometimes in a two-for-one deal (as is the case with author Wesley Stace, aka musician John Wesley Harding.)
The 2007 lineup isn’t as stellar as last year’s, when a positive excess of literary luminaries lit up the [...]
17
Dec
Special-effects budgets are one thing writers don’t have to worry about when they set about creating Highly Unusual Worlds. And in the three fall-season debut novels reviewed below, the Highly Unusual is the order of the day.
“Bowl of Cherries”
by Millard Kaufman
McSweeney’s, 326 pp., $22
The narrator of this rambunctious picaresque novel is a teenage Yale dropout [...]
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