Do you know your colon from your semicolon? It’s not just a matter of comma vs full stop, you know. Eve Harvey delves into the inner workings of all things colonic… and Peter Cox …
Posts Tagged ‘writing’
The Writer Exciter: Affairs of the Colon
Writing Drunk and Banging For Nickels
After bartenders, writers are more likely to die from cirrhosis of the liver than any other profession. Drugs of all kind have been intimately, and often destructively, involved in the writing process: the list of …
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano’s first novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, took Italy by storm last year: selling over a million copies and becoming the year’s top selling title. Today we talk to Paolo, fresh from his …
Tropes Are In
It’s Monday, so it’s time to (warily) open the doors to Eve’s Salmagundi Club – today, we’re looking at the latest incarnation of the e-book reader… this one’s in color… and a site that collects …
At Home With The Hells Angels
Undercover agent Jay Dobyns
They’re part of American mythology: OMGs (outlaw motorcycle gangs) are uniquely American in origin, and indeed the country’s only indigenous organized crime movement. Today, in the company of former undercover agent Jay …
Is Your Publishing House Your Home?
We have a scintillating international panel for your entertainment and enjoyment tonight. Leading lawyer, author and Litopia Daily’s newshound Donna Ballman is back from her travels and ready to dispense some authorial wisdom. She’s joined …
The Prefrontal Gym
“Every story is a new Heaven” says Brian Eno of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman – our guest this morning. The connection between good science and good writing is closer than …
Yes, We’ve Reached Two Centuries!
Hurray – it’s the 200th episode of LITOPIA DAILY today! Keeping you informed, intrigued and hopefully entertained too – our mission is to bring you all the latest ideas, all the most interesting people, and …
Writing Realistic Pancreas Scenes
Our discussion with leading intellectual property lawyer Jeremy Morton, partner at international law firm Fasken Martineau, continues today – we’re looking back to the good old, bad old days of tape-to-tape copying brought to you …
Trust Me, I’m An Expert
Trust Me, I'm An Expert
Experts… don’t ya just love em? The media has an expert for every topic… yet people get more and more confused. Never more so than in the hot-button area of climate …
Sadomasochism for Accountants
Rosy Barnes is a first-time author whose debut book is just published: intriguingly titled Sadomasochism for Accountants it deals with, um, sadomasochism and… er… accountants. As ever, Peter wants to know the full story – …
HarperZombie
HarperCollins sheds up to 120 human jobs in New York; who knows what will happen in London? HC’s six month operating income dropped nearly 75 percent, to $26 million from over $100 million previously. Tonight …
Sic Transit Gloria Richard et Judy
Today Peter and Peggy Brusseau discuss plagiarism, the negative effects of television on writers’ creativity, and the surprising superiority of printed dictionaries over their online versions.
In today’s Write Report, Donna reports on Richard and Judy …
Hot Chicks with Douchebags
Today Peter and Peggy Brusseau start with the semi-colon; continue via Tom Paine and Richard Dawkins; and conclude with the implications for publishing and writers of an attenuated attention span.
In today’s Write Report, Donna reports …
Shilling for The Kindle
Today Peter and Peggy Brusseau continue yesterday’s discussion of inspiration: it’s the shadow today, as they pin down the blocks that stop writers from becoming inspired. (Production note – the audio on Peter’s feature is …
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