When Terry Pratchett announced his £500,000 donation towards Alzheimer research, he talked about how shamefully small the donations towards this disease are. Terry Pratchett was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer. During an Alzheimer's conference he said, “It’s a shock and a shame, then, to find out that money for research is 3% of that which goes to find cancer cures.” This best-selling author is truly raising awareness about Alzheimer.
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Showing posts with label Literature News. Show all posts
18 March 2008
04 March 2008
More rules for teens?
According to an author with many teen fans, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, parents need to be stricter when setting down rules for teenagers. It is shocking that an author that incorporates adult content in her young adult novels, believes that "children" shouldn't grow up so fast.
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29 February 2008
Rowling Annoyed at Twisted Fan-Author Relations
Steven Vander Ark is the manager of a Harry Potter fansite full of fan fiction and essays, as well as lots of information about the Harry Potter Universe. Now, Ark is attempting to publish an unauthorized reference book, "Harry Potter Lexicon."
Rowling has said that she is annoyed that Ark and the publisher, RDR Books, are arguing that Rowling's acceptance of unofficial Harry Potter websites is justifying the creation of the book.
She says, "I find it devastating to contemplate the possibility of such a severe alteration of author-fan relations."
Rowling intends to publish her own Harry Potter encyclopedia, the sales of which could be compromised by the publication of Ark's own lexicon.
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Rowling has said that she is annoyed that Ark and the publisher, RDR Books, are arguing that Rowling's acceptance of unofficial Harry Potter websites is justifying the creation of the book.
She says, "I find it devastating to contemplate the possibility of such a severe alteration of author-fan relations."
Rowling intends to publish her own Harry Potter encyclopedia, the sales of which could be compromised by the publication of Ark's own lexicon.
Read the full article here.
26 February 2008
"Poetry Makes Nothing Happen"?
Is it true that "poetry makes nothing happen"?
Excerpt from http://books.guardian.co.uk/
The quotation about poetry making nothing happen is, in fact, half-remembered from the second part of Auden's In Memory of WB Yeats, that goes:
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper; it flows south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth.
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Excerpt from http://books.guardian.co.uk/
The quotation about poetry making nothing happen is, in fact, half-remembered from the second part of Auden's In Memory of WB Yeats, that goes:
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper; it flows south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth.
Read Full Article Here
19 February 2008
New Line Cinema to Lose Big
[Excerpt from guardian.co.uk]
JRR Tolkien's estate is suing the studio behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy and threatening to block production on the planned prequel, The Hobbit over claims it has not been paid its share of profits from the massively successful fantasy series.
JRR Tolkien's estate is suing the studio behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy and threatening to block production on the planned prequel, The Hobbit over claims it has not been paid its share of profits from the massively successful fantasy series.
01 February 2008
Best Sellers, From Cell Phones?
Cellphone novels, believe it or not, are books written on cell phone keypads, typed one tiny key at a time. For the most part, readers have experienced them on those tiny screens as well. Also for the most part, they have been called a category of literature that's even more frowned upon than fan fiction.
Recently, these novels, born on a phone, have started appearing in paperback form. Not only that, but they have become increasingly popular in Japan. At the end of last year, five of the nation's ten best sellers were originally made on a cell phone.
Absurd? Perhaps. A trend that could lower the standards for literature in Japan? Also a maybe. Whatever the future holds for these books, their authors are making the sort of money that would make many conventional authors jealous.
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