To celebrate, why not share some indie love by promoting an indie book or author? Or, you could read an indie book!
We suggest (cough, cough) THE AUTOMATION. It’s free to read in its entirety on Goodreads.
GABBLER RECOMMENDS: First episode of Westworld 2016
#TBT – EW’s article on ‘The Writer Without a Face’
‘In an era of reality TV and noxious cycles of dubious fame, Ferrante believes the work should stand on its own. She will only submit to interviews over email, going so far as to turn down a meaty profile opportunity in The New Yorker when the magazine insisted on an in-person interview. “Without reserve,” Ferrante wrote me in an email exchange, “I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.”
The Neapolitan books reek of lived moments, and when asked about the series’ inspiration Ferrante said she intentionally named one of her main characters after her pseudonym. ” I gave my name to the narrator to make my job easier,” she wrote. “Anyone who writes knows that the most complicated thing is the rendering of events and characters in such a way that they are not realistic but real. In order for this to happen it is necessary to believe in the story one is working on…. I had a friend whom I cared for very much, and I began from that experience. But real events don’t count much when one writes; at most they are like getting shoved while out on the street.”‘
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EPIC CATALOG: Authors Anonymous Accosted
- Adrian Jones Pearson, Cow Country.
- Elena Ferrante.
- Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling.
- James Tiptree, Jr.
- Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Requires Hate.
- Richard Bachman.
- Rose Christo, My Immortal.
Any other authors who have had their poor pen names prodded, versus the author sharing the secret of their own volition?
The Influential Science Fiction of Virginia Woolf
GABBLER RECOMMENDS: This horseshit.
Virginia Woolf, arguably one of the most famous female authors of the 20th century, is best known for her novels that experimented with stream-of-consciousness and the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters. Less well known are the early pseudo-science-fiction works that Woolf wrote under the pen name E V Odle, however in recent years it is these works that have arguably had more influence on popular culture.
Woolf was born in 1882 and showed a talent for writing from a very early age; however her first book The Voyage Out was not published until she was 33 in 1915. For the next few years she enjoyed mixed success as a novelist (not enjoying mainstream recognition under her own name until 1925’s Mrs Dalloway) and so as a way to supplement her income wrote a number of short stories and novels to be published in popular magazines and…
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