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The Tart of Fiction / FictionBitch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Seems we don't need publishers pushing us into making our novels more 'accessible' for non-readers when we've got Lionel Shriver . Literature is not very popular these days, to put it mildly. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, nearly half of Americans do not read books at all, and those who do average a mere six a year. You'd think literary writers would be bending over backwards to...
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The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
According to Lionel Shriver: Literature is not very popular these days, to put it mildly. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, nearly half of Americans do not read books at all, and those who do average a mere...
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New Love Lines (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
As Mrs Bush prepares her memoirs, Lionel Shriver unravels the appeal of a First Lady who is as beloved as her husband is disliked. My own feelings about Laura Bush are mild. My neutrality on the First Lady stands in stark contrast to my virulent disapproval of her husband’s policies. It is this surprising division of [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
As Mrs Bush prepares her memoirs Lionel Shriver unravels the appeal of a First Lady who is as beloved as her husband is disliked.
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bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Couldn't agree more. Here's her impassioned paean to the rapidly vanishing quotation mark, published on October 25, 2008 in the Wall Street Journal. Missing the Mark Quotation marks have fallen out of favor, and that's bad for books Literature is...
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Bookninja (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Two pieces on Toni Morrison: one, a lukewarm review, by Lionel Shriver in the Telegraph, and one on the dangers of celebrity in the Guardian. All writers, to a greater or lesser extent, have to have a private and a public persona. But real fame complicates this already tender balance. Once an author has made that [...]
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lying for a living (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
In the Wall Street Journal, Lionel Shriver raises a battle cry against writers who refuse to use quotation marks for dialogue. You’d think literary writers would be bending over backwards to ingratiate themselves to readers — to make their work maximally accessible, straightforward and inviting. But no. Perhaps no single emblem better epitomizes the perversity of my [...]
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
In the Wall Street Journal Lionel Shriver thinks authors are Missing the Mark, finding 'Quotation marks have fallen out of favor, and that's bad for books'.
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BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver Release date: 2007 / 517 pages First Line: What began as coincidence had crystallized into tradition: on the sixth of July, they would have dinner with Ramsey Acton on his birthday. Synopsis (from back cover): “Using a playful parallel-universe structure, The Post-Birthday World follows one woman’s future as it unfolds under the [...]
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Sunset Over Slawit (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Lionel Shriver's infamous We Need To Talk About Kevin was rightly lauded for tackling thorny issues in a sensitive, unsensationalised, yet undeniably thrilling fashion. It's a great book that makes you think about having children when maybe you don't really want them, or finding yourself with the kind of out-of-control offspring no parent could ever want. Her follow-up, Double Fault , isn't quite as...
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Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Bibliophibians (n.pl) - those who are drowning in books to the extent they develop special gills. I loved this cartoon by David Maliki at Wondermark.com [found via and via ]. (Click up to size.) Speaking of drowing in books - what are you reading now? My current reads are 1) Lionel Shriver's harrowing We Have to Talk About Kevin which is our book club pick and 2) Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash which...
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Katie Price, a.k.a. Jordan, has now surpassed Harry Potter author JK Rowling in the speed of her UK book sales. But she's never seems to be pictured anywhere near a typewriter, muses author Lionel Shriver.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Julian Baggini: Lionel Shriver is right that debt has a moral dimension, but it's not a simple matter of 'saving good, borrowing bad'
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theRatandMouse (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
The average annual savings rate in America is now a paltry £200, not much more than the value of the coins that fall yearly into the cracks of the average sofa. I don't know where she gets her figures......
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BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Release date: 2003 / 400 pages First lines: “Dear Franklin, I’m unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you. But since we’ve been separated, I may most miss coming home to deliver the narrative curiosities of my day, the way a cat might [...]
