You’d think it was hard enough just being a writer, wouldn’t you? However, an increasing number of writers are voluntarily choosing to make their lives even tougher – by choosing to vanquish their own, personal, …
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Will The iPad Save Publishing?
In what is arguably the most significant week in publishing this decade – maybe even this century – we’re giving Apple’s newly launched iPad a rigorous examination – and coming to a surprising verdict – …
Read more »Celebrity Iguana Rehab
Is online book piracy a good or bad thing for authors? Whichever it is – can we really do anything about it? And what it’s got to do with Cory Doctorow’s sperm count (quite a …
Read more »Back To Work
Right! Rip the decorations down, shape up and let’s get serious. Party time’s over (but it was a good one, wasn’t it?). It’s a new year and arguably a new decade – we’re all business …
Read more »The Party To End All Parties!
No matter how many Christmas parties you may go to over the festive season, one thing is certain – you’ll never encounter anything quite as spectacular as Litopia After Dark’s annual bash. Featuring Donna Ballman, …
Read more »18 Holes
The highly popular “Dr. Sue” (Dr. Susan O’Doherty, the writer’s therapist) is our special guest for the year’s penultimate LITOPIA AFTER DARK – next week’s show is our Xmas Party, so expect lots of fun, …
Read more »The Contextual Wrap
With panellists from Norway, England, Florida and India, tonight’s show is the most geographically-diverse we’ve ever had – and as we approach our one hundredth episode, we can modestly congratulate ourselves on being the world’s …
Read more »The 36-Hour Day
You’ll have to forgive Peter his little gaffes tonight: last night was the evening of the Golden Twits Awards in which Litopia triumphed… he’s been up a long time! Fortunately, tonight’s redoubtable and stout-hearted panel …
Read more »The Naked Name of Love
Jesuit-shaman sex on the eastern steppes of Mongolia. It may sound like an aberration from The Commissioning Meeting (see below) but no, it’s a real book, and a promising candidate for this year’s Bad Sex …
Read more »The Audacity of Narcissism
To promote her new book – for which she’s been reportedly paid anything up to $11m – the former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has taken to Twittering. But not in the way that lesser mortals …
Read more »The Joy Of Rejection
Imagine this. You have a letter of acceptance in your hand, and one of rejection… which one are you going to brood over? If you’re like most writers, you’ll take the rejection to heart, while …
Read more »Noddy Experiences Relativistic Effects
It’s our Halloween show, and the most horrifying item on tonight’s agenda is unfortunately all too corporeal: one publisher has summarily announced their new e-book royalty rate will be a meagre 20% – not of …
Read more »Love Me Like A Reptile
“When love is not madness, it is not love” wrote the C17th Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca – although he might easily been referring to tonight’s Litopia After Dark, in which we learn …
Read more »Dead Authors Society
Things have come to a pretty pass when publishers prefer to issue the minor works of dead authors rather the current work of living writers. But that’s what’s happening in today’s muddled publishing scene: the …
Read more »Smells Like Books
The first live LITOPIA AFTER DARK of the season returns with the humongously diverse smorgasbord of ingredients that you’ve come to expect and (we hope) love! Our vintage panel comprises Donna Ballman, Eve Harvey, Dave …
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