Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Good Reads: 10.20.09

Was Shakespeare a Collaborator?
A British professor uses plagiarism software to detect the Bard’s “linguistic footprint” and hypothesize that Shakespeare worked with Thomas Kyd on the play Edward III.
Times of London

NaNoWriMo
50,000 words in one month? Is National Novel Writing Month a publicity stunt or a useful prod for wannabe novelists?
Web Worker Daily

Industry Rankings
There are 140 full-residency creative-writing programs in the USA. Poets&Writers magazine explains the system it will use to rank the top 50 in its next issue.
Poets&Writers

New Science Fiction Magazine
Next year Fantasy Magazine will start up LIGHTSPEED, an online magazine seeking four stories a month. Submissions accepted as of Jan. 1, 2010.
John Joseph Adams

Creepy Classics
The short story grew out of tales of horror by the likes Edgar Allan Poe. It seems fitting, then, that the Library of America has got round to publishing American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny.
Boston Globe

The Plot Against Plot
“A good story is a dirty secret we all share,” says novelist and critic Lev Grossman. He predicts a return to the kind of story telling banished by the great Modernist novelists of the 20th century.
Wall Street Journal

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