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Ali Smith's "Artful"--Is it A Successful New Literary Form?
Posted on May 17, 2013 at 4:35am 4 Comments 3 Likes
Sarah Glazer takes a second look at her reaction to an experiment.
I’m still not sure if I like novelist Ali Smith’s Artful. It has been marketed as a writing…
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Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:00am 11 Comments 5 Likes
Sarah Glazer, a fan of Katherine Boo, wonders if her technique is for everyone
“But does it work as a novel?” That question from a member of my London book club startled me as we discussed Katherine Boo’s compelling reporting on slum-dwellers of Mumbai,…
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Sarah Glazer Discovers Self-Publishing is Nothing New
We often talk as if self-publishing is something new. But as far back as the 18th and 19th centuries, renowned British…
Why I'd Give Up My Amazon Refund
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 5:11am 1 Comment 2 Likes
Sarah Glazer worries that writers are getting shafted by Amazon
Like a lot of you, I got that “Dear Kindle customer” email from Amazon last week. It told me I was entitled to refunds on some past e-book purchases due to the settlement of a price-fixing case with publishers.
I normally wouldn’t consider myself a fan of price-fixing, but I confess my heart…
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Sarah Glazer takes a second look at her reaction to an experiment.I’m still not sure if I like novelist Ali Smith’s Artful. It has been marketed as a writing breakthrough, "refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form," according to the …See More
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Sarah Glazer takes a second look at her reaction to an experiment.I’m still not sure if I like novelist Ali Smith’s Artful. It has been marketed as a writing breakthrough, "refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form," according to the …See More
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