Haruki Marukami, the wonderful Japanese writer, said this at the New Yorker Festival, and I think it’s a wonderful point to have made in this age of snarky bloggers and unedited rants both on the Web and in print.
1. Criticizing somebody is fun and easy.
2. Meanwhile, creating something original is very hard.
3. But somebody’s got […]
I spent last Saturday morning on a panel titled “Uncommon Women” for the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago. Also on the panel, moderated by the wonderful Lauren Fox, were Laura Moriarty and Marisa de los Santos. One issue that came up during discussion of Ms. Moriarty’s book, The Rest of Her Life, was how […]
According to my agent at William Morris, starting February 5, nine Starbucks coffee shops in Monroe and Marysville, Washington, will carry The Heroines and four other books as part of a rapid-testing initiative. If the book sells out west, expansion to other stores may happen. (The two towns are outside of Seattle.) I’m competing with the likes […]
