Yann Martel Likes to Mail Stuff…
Monday, August 20th by ShaneEspecially to the Prime Minister of Canada. The author of Life of Pi sends a book every two weeks to Stephen Harper to get the PM to pay more attention, and pay more money, to the arts. Is it working? No, but it beats my idea of sending this guy to the White House.
Here’s another guide to writing, this time by Jenny Davidson, which at first inspires and then makes you mad when you realize that someone like Jenny Davidson is a hard worker with talent and you just watch TV all day in your pajamas, alone, with occasional breaks to type on your literature blog. You need to get your priorities straight, reader.
French hotels put books in their rooms for people to read. If you’re trying to figure out if American hotels should do this, first ask yourself how many times you want to read about a Best Western desk clerk solving a mystery.
And now that Harry Potter’s been killed by Voldemort, or something like that, J.K. Rowling is ready to write a crime novel. Or so Ian Rankin told people at the Edinburgh Book Festival. It turns out it was a joke that got out of hand, meaning that we still don’t know what Rowling’s post-Potter book will be and that British people need better jokes.
