Geoff Dyer's latest work - click on the picture to order
In our last conversation with highly-acclaimed British author Geoff Dyer, whose fourth novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is published this week, we discuss inter alia how the writer deals with critics, the vagaries of the writer’s life, and the classic dilemma of the romantic poet.
In today’s Write Report, Donna reports that children’s books are increasingly going multimedia. If all our work is to be pirated in the digital future, then we’d better find lots of alternative ways to “monetize” our manuscripts…
In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she finds a site that details all the great things in store for you if you decide to date a writer – especially if you aren’t one yourself.
Links: The Write Report, 20 Great Things About Dating a Writer
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What? Male writers aren't manly men? What about Hemingway? What about….help me out here. Edgar Allan Poe. He got drunk and died in the gutter! What could be more manly than that?
(Okay, that's not exactly what happened but what could be more natural than the exercise of creative license in the death of a man whose death will forever remain a mystery.)
Drunken gutterdeath is def manly, of course… but I don’t know too many male writers who do the “Mrrrh” thing a lot…