"Beautiful essay, Sarah! My own contact with some of the best books ever written took place mostly before I was 24 years old. Maybe I'll give some of those classics another try."
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Ali Smith's "Artful"--Is it A Successful New Literary Form?
Posted on May 17, 2013 at 4:35am 2 Comments 1 Like
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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Ali Smith's "Artful"--Is it A Successful New Literary Form?
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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Ali Smith's "Artful"--Is it A Successful New Literary Form?
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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"Natalie that was more what I meant with my comment, actually. I was saying that it was more acceptable that Boo had been able (if this is in fact true, I'm not sure) to get Abdul to recount his experience than if she had done what I…"
Natylie Baldwin commented on the blog post 'Is it OK to Write Journalism like Fiction?'
"I always thought that Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was a novel loosely inspired by a real crime. Ditto for The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer. Am I wrong on this classification? Joyce Carol Oates also writes many of…"
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Kelly Hayes-Raitt commented on the blog post 'Is it OK to Write Journalism like Fiction?'
"P.S. I'm heading back to Baghdad this August and hope to be employing more multi-media journalism. In the meantime, I'm trying to secure paid assignments in the mainstream media using my writing style of "journalistic…"
Kelly Hayes-Raitt commented on the blog post 'Is it OK to Write Journalism like Fiction?'
"Great post! For me the answers are simple: Tell the truth. Make up nothing. But the execution is a bear. As a freelance journalist, I abhor the phrase "creative journalism," as it implies poetic license.…"
Connie L. Stambush commented on the blog post 'Is it OK to Write Journalism like Fiction?'
"I agree with you Kaitlin. It's creative nonfiction a la Truman Capote's In Cold Blood."
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