College Students! discussion

I sometimes come across interesting articles about books or authors and I realized we don't have a thread for that!

Here's one that I found recently about Neil Gaiman and a short story via Twitter.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...

Also found this one for any Jack Kerouac fans or Ben Gibbard lovers.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...

I'm definitely going to be listening to that.

I found this opinion article by Jonathan Safran Foer on CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/28...

Anyone see this regarding Stieg Larsson?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/l...

Wow, okay. What good does it do to attack someone that is dead, and can't defend themselves? I guess for me it seems most authors aren't the only writer of any book. There are too many editors and proof readers and such that suggest changes to make any work solely one persons. So does it really matter?

I really don't care who wrote the books, I am just glad they were written. I loved the first 2 and am patiently awaiting the third.

This isn't an interesting article...


HOWEVER...


Did any of you know that Neil Gaiman is engaged to Amanda Palmer (of the Dresden Dolls)??

I just found that out!

hah yes.
I have a mutual friend with Amanda; I've met her before.

Chrissie wrote: "hah yes.
I have a mutual friend with Amanda; I've met her before."

Lucky!!

I found this article about books translators and Edith Grossman (she translated Love in the Time of Cholera:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/a...

From the New York Times: The Kids' Books Are All Right
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/boo...

It's an interesting article about how more and more 'adults' are reading young adult books.

What a great article, thanks for posting the link!

My friend sent me this since she knew I just finished Mockingjay. It is about the popularity of Young Adult Utopian novels.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics...

I read this great article about Margaret Atwood the other day. I'm actually reading Atwood's Wilderness Tips (which the article says a bit about) right now!

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/article...

I've only read Cat's Eye by Atwood but I own a bunch of her books! Going to read the article now!

Here's an article by Margret Atwood about being a "woman author."
http://thisrecording.com/today/2010/8...

Just read an article about banning certain types of books in prisons. Come discuss on the B&B blog!

http://brokeandbookish.blogspot.com/2...

Sarah Dessen wrote an article for CosmoGirl magazine about the different boys in her books. I thought it was really interesting to read what she thinks of her 'boys'.

You can read it here: http://www.seventeen.com/cosmogirl/sa...