You could design your own cover art, travel the country dressed in a riduculous outfit, or arm-wrestle a guy to get him to buy your book, like Eragon author Christopher Paolini. Or you could call a different book club every day, as did Lucia, Lucia author Adriana Trigiani.
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If you liked Land-Grant College Review as much as I did, then you’ll really enjoy this new piece they have up by the talented Mikhail Iossel: “Some Of The World Transactions My Father Has Missed Due To His Death On September 14, 1999.”
Newsweek‘s Malcom Jones writes about the surge in used-book sales. Says he, “I own a couple of Cormac McCarthy hardcovers from the ’80s, for instance, that are now worth $1,500 each. My indifference to collecting took a beating the day I discovered those prices online.” Heh. What’s in your attic?
Louisa Young writes about her brief reign as the “next J.K. Rowling.”
Amy Tan has contracted Lyme Disease, says the Washington Post is this atrociously titled article. Symptoms include fatigue, memory loss, and “dropping first letters of words when writing by hand and replacing words with similar-sounding gibberish when speaking.” What a nightmare.
This summer, the Guardian is publishing a bunch of new short stories by famous authors. Dave Eggers made the list this weekend, with “Something Might Plummet, Something Might Soar” and it starts like this:
“Mrs Gunderson. Whahaooaoooa. Mrs Gunderson. This is about Mrs Gunderson and it gets dirty. ”
Read the entire story here.