Bill Cheng's Blog, page 22

scottcheshire:With Claire Messud at the Harvard Book Store....

scottcheshire:

With Claire Messud at the Harvard Book Store. Which I gotta say was pretty special.

#1 conversation I have with aspiring writers.

jamiatt:

Topics: Being disciplined, setting your own deadlines, finishing your project.

Response: Set a goal for three months from now, reach it, set another goal for three months after that, reach that. Keep going till you are done.

There are no shortcuts, and no one can write this book but you.

Smith Henderson’s FOURTH OF JULY CREEK

Smith Henderson’s FOURTH OF JULY CREEK:

bitingthebook:

Review: Smith Henderson’s FOURTH OF JULY CREEK - I was totally enthralled and enraptured by this book

With cover quotes from Kevin Power, Philipp Meyer and Jenni Fagan there was no way I was not going to read this. Throw in a rave review from John Harvey describing it as the best novel…

strandbooks:Highlighted passage, On Becoming a Novelist by...

strandbooks:

Highlighted passage, by John Gardner, page 49.

Damn, that’s pretty

Damn, that’s pretty

I'm incredibly uncomfortable with the world today.

I'm incredibly uncomfortable with the world today.:

forestfrog:

Why? Because of the incident with Anita Sarkeesian that drove her out of her home. For those who don’t know what happened, I’ll go into detail.

The latest episode of Tropes vs Women was posted earlier this week and it was widely received positively with women (and some men) who have been…

The video in question

The video in question

Valve Corporation: Black out Steam access for 1 hr to protest the harassment of Anita Sarkeesian & threats against women in games.

Valve Corporation: Black out Steam access for 1 hr to protest the harassment of Anita Sarkeesian & threats against women in games.:

jwthornton:

On August 25, Anita Sarkeesian posted a new “Tropes vs. Women” video cataloguing violent imagery against women in games. This post came in the context…

A signal from a major games hub like Steam that this kind of behavior is not okay would carry some weight. Consider signing?

myjetpack:My book of cartoons ‘You’re All Just Jealous of my...

myjetpack:

My book of cartoons ‘You’re All Just Jealous of my Jetpack’ is available now:
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1770461043
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1770461043
Other stockists and info at www.tomgauld.com

"Too often, [Ken] Chen says, publishing companies say they would publish more diverse books, but the..."

“Too often, [Ken] Chen says, publishing companies say they would publish more diverse books, but the market just isn’t there for them. Chen doesn’t buy that.


“Your ability to imagine that there is a market has to do with your ability to imagine that those people exist,” he says. “And if [you] can’t imagine that people of color actually exist and can buy books, then you can’t imagine selling books to them. That’s not just about a company corporate diversity policy; it’s about actually knowing what’s going on in communities of color.””

- Ken Chen, poet and director of the Asian American Writers Workshop, to NPR (“To Achieve Diversity In Publishing, A Difficult Dialogue Beats Silence” by Lynn Neary)