the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
At Swans Walter Trkla asks the peculiar question: In The Cellist Of Sarajevo Is Fiction A License To Lie ? wondering: Does an author of fiction owe a duty to the reader to present history accurately, or does the fact that he claims this is fiction absolve him from that moral responsibility? Well, he doesn't really wonder, finding: Galloway uses events in history that are still untested by evidence...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I kind of hope you didn’t show up yesterday to witness my shame. I’ve been doing public speaking engagements lately where I address various groups on how to set up, maintain, and develop online communities, and one of the key things I talk about is being consistent. Damn. Bad blogger-who-wants-to-be-a-novelist. If it’s any consolation, I wrote 7 pages. Steven Galloway isn’t holding his...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Barry's Costa-winning The Secret Scripture and Canadian writer Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo all won eight nominations as well. Also longlisted for the Impac, at €100,000 (£90,000) the most valuable literary award for a single work of fiction published in English, are Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence, Peter Carey's His...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Barbados, Lebanon, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United States) The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (8 libraries representing Belgium, Canada, England, and Finland) The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (8 libraries representing Brazil, Canada, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, and the United States) The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (8 libraries representing...
Allie's Musings (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
"If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good." ~Steven Galloway Well, I'm blogging over at the Samhain Publishing Blog today....do stop by and visit me there, would you? Love to hear from you!
