The Ten Opening Lines That Are Dearest to Me in Prose Fiction Posted by By jim_snowden June 17, 2013Posted inBooks In no particular order: This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is:…
When Should An Author Retire? Posted by By jim_snowden February 28, 2013Posted inBooks, Writing Alexander Nazaryan's review of Jim Crace's Harvest raised the question of when an author should hang it up. Crace's answer appears to be that authors should find something else to do…