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For your reading pleasure, as the work week comes to a close. Spend some time this weekend with a selection of links from this week’s Fiction Friday newsletter, produced by the Culture Alliance. Here is a miscellany of short fiction, news, opinion, advice and criticism from the publishing world.
Short Fiction
- The Taborin Scale – a novella by Lucius Shepard
- “The Story Teller” by Saki (H.H. Munro b.1870 – d.1916)
Reviews
- Triple Crown by Dick Francis – A Review by Lars Walker
- The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon – a review by Bill Shepard
News, Interviews and Opinion
- Four Reasons Why Authors Should Use LinkedIn – HT: Phil at BrandywineBooks.net
- Audio Interview with John C. Gardner
- San Diego Comic-Con: Scott Pilgrim, ‘Ulysses Seen,’ and a Layoff at Del Rey
- A Wry Dystopian Seer – The Wall Street Journal interviews Gary Shteyngart
- Harlequin Builds a Non-Fiction Presence
- Print Sales Up Double Digits at Amazon
Literary Criticism
- Excerpt from “Introduction on the Republication of On Moral Fiction”
- Moral Fiction - The Atlantic Magazine’s Mary Gordon discusses Gardner’s On Moral Fiction
Writing Advice
Announcements
- PW Calls for Information: War & Military – “Needed: Publishers’/editors’ written comments about the state of this category: what kinds of books are customers looking for; how have the current Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts affected sales and publishers’ future plans? We’ll look at books pubbing between July 1 and February 28, 2011. Story and sidebar ideas are welcome. Please e-mail submissions to Dick Donahue, ddonahue@publishersweekly.com”
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