#novelists — Public Fediverse posts

Claudia Rankine Plays Dead

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/claudia-rankine-plays-dead

How Caro Claire Burke Wrote the Biggest Book of the Year

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/how-caro-claire-burke-wrote-the-biggest-book-of-the-year

My Birthright

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-birthright

Éric Rohmer’s Novel “Élisabeth” Is a Precocious Literary Triumph

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/eric-rohmers-novel-elisabeth-is-a-precocious-literary-triumph

A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/a-trollish-new-campus-novel-hates-students-and-professors-alike

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
― Lisa See

#Bot #Quote #Books #Novelists #Reading #Storytellers #Storytelling #Writers #Writing

Growing Up with a Mother in Prison

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/growing-up-with-a-mother-in-prison

Muriel Spark, the Double Agent

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/muriel-spark-the-double-agent

Jenni Fagan & Irvine Welsh
28 May, Hay-on-Wye. £16

Celebrate the best of Scottish writing with two giants from the country’s literary scene. Jenni Fagan & Irvine Welsh will explore their own writing, discuss creativity & reflect on modern Scottish literature.

Part of Hay Festival Global 2026

https://www.hayfestival.com/p-25319-jenni-fagan-and-irvine-welsh-talk-to-jude-rogers.aspx

#Scottish #literature #novel #novelists #contemporaryliterature #JenniFagan #IrvineWelsh #HayOnWye #HayFestival

Gwendoline Riley’s New Novel Surveys the Wreckage of Middle Age

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/gwendoline-rileys-new-novel-surveys-the-wreckage-of-middle-age

and memory (let alone attention span) is indeed in seriously short supply these days ->

The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-patron-saint-of-oddballs-and-delinquents

Ben Lerner and the Impossible Interview

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/ben-lerner-and-the-impossible-interview

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/business/ai-claude-romance-books.html

Welcome to #AI #Genai #LLM #books #novels - quantity over quality. Everything is comfort food all the time.

#bookstodon #amwriting #author #reader #reading #writing #writers #novelists #writerscoffeeclub #writersofmastodon #scribesandmakers #wordweavers

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b... Welcome to #AI #Genai #LLM #books #novels - quantity over quality. Everything is comfort food all the time. #booksky #amwriting #author #reader #reading #writing #writers #novelists

The New Fabio Is Claude

#humour #humor #novelists #publishing

How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/how-do-you-write-about-the-inexplicable

“Wake Up Dead Man” and the Whodunnit Renaissance

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/wake-up-dead-man-and-the-whodunnit-renaissance

“Now, at an age when many #novelists ease up on the throttle, he has synthesized all of these strains into something close to a #masterwork.” www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1... #IanMcEwan #books #BookSky

The Atlantic 10: The Best Book...

Does “Hamlet” Need a Backstory?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/does-hamlet-need-a-backstory

Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/ian-mcewan-on-imagining-the-world-after-disaster

“Perhaps uniquely among the great #novelists of the #English language, #Austen lends herself to broad-based in-person #fandom. You don’t see people getting worked up like this over, say, #Dickens or #Twain.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b... #JaneAusten #BookSky

Everyone Is Invited to Jane Au...

László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/laszlo-krasznahorkai-and-contemporary-europes-perilous-reality

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The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
Ed. by Cairns Craig
£24.95 | €29.95 | $29.95

This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION assesses the work of Scottish novelists – writing in English, Gaelic, & Scots – from the eighteenth century to the present, & confronts constructions of nationality, identity, & form.

Available from all good booksellers & online via Project MUSE

@litstudies

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic10/

#Scottish #literature #novel #novels #novelists #literarystudies

#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 5 hours ago

Valérie Bah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rie_Bah
Valérie Bah is a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2025 for her debut novel Subterrane

#Canadian #Black #Novelists

🎮📚 Oh look, The Guardian discovers that some #novelists are adding joystick-scribbling to their CVs and game writers are playing with chapters. 🙄 Because, clearly, swapping between writing "Game Over" and "The End" is a groundbreaking career move. 😂
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/apr/30/novelists-video-game-writers #gaming #gamewriting #careerhumor #joystickwriting #HackerNews #ngated

Some novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/apr/30/novelists-video-game-writers

#HackerNews #novelists #video #games #storytelling #gamewriting #crossmedia #creativity