A British newspaper has collected famous last words of writers.
The Los Angeles Times wins some kind of award for yesterday’s headline: “A Squid Attacks This Week’s L.A. Times Bestseller List.” They’re talking, of course, about China Miéville’s Kraken.
And another author has waded into the chick-lit fray.
It would be nice to see some of this interest the media keeps trying to gin up toward fiction (best first line of a book, famous last words) actually aimed toward new, young writers. Two decades from now everyone’s going to ask us why there was a big, yawning thirty-year gap where we as society seemed to simply cease caring about ever reading good, new fiction again.
Agreed. That and this site’s and some other media’s obsession with tacky celebrity tell all books that they are trying to push on us as literature.