Taking a welcome break from the Scribd story that we first broke on LITOPIA AFTER DARK nearly ten days ago, we’re again talking to highly-acclaimed British author Geoff Dyer (the Daily Telegraph calls him “the best living writer in Britain”) whose fourth novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is published this week. Today we’re moving forwards to the moment that Geoff landed his first book deal – his seminal encounter with John Berger - how writers acquire confidence in their own skills – living on the frontline in Brixton in the eighties – and being categorized.
In today’s Write Report, Donna reports that reading as little as six minutes a day can seriously reduce your stress levels. (Unless you read pirated books from Scribd, bad!).
In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she finds a site that generates random titles for books or short stories… scarily good… could publishers really be using it? Feels like they do…
Links: The Write Report, Random Book Title Generator
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