In the last few years I’ve become dependent on audiobooks to the point that now I’m often listening to novels more than I’m reading them. According to the New York Times, audiobook sales were up 38% in 2015, and more and more people are binge listening. This year on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I binge-listened to the twenty-three hour Book Four of The Barchester novels by Anthony Trollope. [Read more…]
Reading Dostoyevsky: Advice for Writers from a Writer
Many novelists shut down on reading fiction while they are at work on a book. Some fear that the voice of an author whom they admire might influence their voice, thereby weakening its sound and effect. I am the opposite. [Read more…]