Clippings 2
Turns out that it wasn’t Al Gore who invented the internet; it was Mark Twain! So argues Crawford Kilian at Tyee Books.
Last Sunday’s New York Times includes an essay by The Echo Maker author Richard Powers on “How to Speak a Book” or why he dictates all his fiction.
Got a book to publicize (or just curious)? Freelance journalist Jen Miller’s helpful “Literary Journalists: How to Get on Their Radar” is one of articles available online from the current issue of Poets & Writers.
If you’re not checking out Semicolon’s weekly Saturday Review of Books, you should. An excellent clearinghouse of reviews by litbloggers during the previous week. I’m discovering some interesting blogs this way, including A Work in Progress and Classical Bookworm.