John Simopoulos is back today with another in our series of Books That Matter to tell us about an author who John knew personally: Joyce Cary. “By the end of his life”, wrote Brad Leithauser …
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The Seafaring Petomane Meets Mrs. Slocombe’s Pussy
There’s more than a whiff of revolution in the air tonight, and it’s not all coming from our special guest, Alan Gibbons, prolific children’s author and instigator of Britain’s national campaign to stop library closures.
While …
The Perils of DRM
Our discussion with leading intellectual property lawyer Jeremy Morton, partner at international law firm Fasken Martineau, concludes today – does DRM (digital rights management) offer authors any protection from piracy? Research shows that the fear …
Read more »Kids With Cookbooks
Five-year-olds with their own celebrity cooking series on TV… four-year olds with food columns… what are we coming to? Today, Peter and Peggy Brusseau wonder whatever’s happened to the once-noble market for cookbooks?
In today’s Write …
Why Truth is Stranger than Fiction
Comedy writing is arguably the toughest genre in which to write… today, Peter and Rosy Barnes, author of Sadomasochism for Accountants, talk about the perils of humorous writing and some of the tricks of the …
Read more »Great Chieftain o’ the Pudding-Race!
Television and film director Andrew Gillman is Peter’s guest all week – today, they’re looking at the most important books that writers ought to read about the art and practice of film. They include:
Adventures in …
A World Without Story?
Were your schooldays the best of your life – or irrelevant and boring? If the latter, has the experience stopped you from honing your writing craft and developing your skills, asks Peter. In today’s Write …
Read more »X-Ray Specs
How’s your eyesight, asks Peter. Writers (and agents, and publishers) read huge quantities of text on-screen – what effect might that be having on our eyes? We have a technical problem with Donna’s Write Report …
Read more »Hack Lit
Full-time writer, or part-time writer? You may dream of escaping from the daily commute into writing paradise, but Peter suggests that there are good writing reasons for not being in a hurry to give up …
Read more »The Getting of Good Ideas
How do you recognize a good idea when it occurs? In today’s LITOPIA DAILY, Peter is joined by British television director Andrew Gillman to discuss this most fundamental of all questions for the writer. In …
Read more »Coming to America
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Litopia’s Donna Ballman interviews the man who has been called the master of contemporary mystery writing – James W Hall is author of bestselling 15 novels and is professor …
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