Why Elmore Leonard Writes; A Defense of Apostrophe Recission Today in publishing and literature: Elmore Leonard's shares some sensible advice about writing on the eve of the publication of his new book Raylan, NPR picks the one poetry collection you need to buy this year, and Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln is going to be a National Geographic documentary.
Lizzie Widdicombe: Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, plagiarism addict. Spy novels embrace clichés?the double agent, the bomb-rigged briefcase?and ?Assassin of Secrets,? published last fall, made a virtue of this tendency, piling one trope onto another to create a story that rang with wry knowingness. The book is set in the . . . (Subscription required.)
Jennifer Egan struck the right chords with 'Goon Squad' By Mark Hinson Democrat senior writer -- In the late '90s, novelist and short-story author Jennifer Egan wanted to try her hand at writing music journalism for The New York Times Magazine.
Salman Rushdie's Video Speech Gets Spiked; The World's Priciest Books Today in publishing and literature: The author's planned video address was cancelled by police because of safety concerns, Michael Hastings says Little, Brown was "terrified" of The Operators, and Cormac McCarthy is not on Twitter despite rumors to the contrary.
