Bookmark now
Subtitle: writing in unreaderly times
By: edited by Kevin Smokler.
Contributors: Smokler, Kevin.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Authorship; Books and reading; Authors and readers
Description: "The immensely talented writers in this collection all came of age professionally in the last decade - and all chose reading and writing over another more lucrative and decidedly flashier pursuits. They became producers and consumers of the written word at the most media-saturated time in history, a time when books face greater cultural competition than ever before. Why? How did they come to writing as a calling? What's the relevance of literature when the very term seems quaint? Bookmark Now answers these questions - and many more you probably never thought to ask."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Kevin Smokler; title: Beginnings. Fadings / by Christian Bauman; title: Look the part / by Pamela Ribon; title: Distractions / by Tom Bissell; title: Border lines / by Stephanie Elizondo Griest; title: The writing life. Welcome.  Grab a broom / by Dan Kennedy; title: A call for collaboration / by Adam Johnson; title: As we mean to go on / by Kelley Eskridge and Nicola Griffith; title: Her dark silent cowboy no more / by Neal Pollack; title: Your own personal satan / by Glen David Gold; title: Lying to the optician : the reading experience revealed / by Tracy Chevalier; title: Voice of a generation / by Paul Flores; title: The now. Putting gay fiction back together / by K.M. Soehnlein; title: If I had a stammer / by Meghan Daum; title: Security / by Benjamin Nugent; title: Ambassadors / by Nell Fruedenberger; title: The McEggers Tang clan / by Robert Lanham; title: 121 years of solitude / by Paul Collins; title: The invisible narrator / by Howard Hunt; title: The slippery slope to Margaritaville / by Vivien Mejia; title: "[tk]" / by Elizabeth Spiers; title: Epilogue.