Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Russell Brown,
...folky singers and dancefloor bangers right next to each other
Totally inappropriate! I demand stricter genre divisions! What next? Cats and dogs living together?
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And as far as innovation in writing goes? Fanfic. Hooray!
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
(aargh, I did have a post, but this site is pretty iPhone, and, I assume, iPad unfriendly to copy & paste and editing. Had to give up)
Russell, you Micro$oft tool! ;-)
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My original point in using Salinger and Proust was that they were reclusive and would have been unlikely to succeed in a world where you need to become a brand and diversify.
What succeed means is, of course, another story.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to nzlemming,
I don’t see them personally progressing their brand/reputation online.
Somehow I believe your examples of Danielle Steele, Dan Brown and Tom Clancy would be far more likely to manage that exercise than J.D. Salinger or Marcel Proust (ignoring that they are dead for the sake of argument) if that really became accepted as essential for writers to succeed.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to nzlemming,
...if those writers had to market themselves...
Um, my point was that those are exactly the writers that would benefit from this evolution. I certainly don't share your belief that
we might hear less from them and more from other diverse and,dare one say, more deserving voices
Quite the opposite.
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Muse: V.S. Naipaul and the Gentle Art of…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
OK. Personally, I can never quite tell how much of Twain’s writing prove anything more than he would have made a damn good talkback radio host or blog-farmed comment troll if he’d been born in 1985 instead of 1835.
True, but I do love his turn of phrase. I'll bookmark that Auerbach essay for later reading.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to nzlemming,
But is it worse? Danielle Steel, Tom Clancy, Dan Brown FFS! This is quality?
Those seem like perfect examples of writers that would only benefit from this evolution.
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Muse: V.S. Naipaul and the Gentle Art of…, in reply to Deborah,
I'll let Mark Twain rip then:
I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
- Letter to Joseph Twichell, 13 September 1898;-)
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(note to self: refrain from quoting Mark Twain on Jane Austen in this thread)