Let Authors Read Their Work!
One thing that bums me out is my sense that people don't seem to want to listen to authors reading their work in public as much as they used to. (This is a trend that predates covid.) I don’t entirely get it: audiobooks are more popular than ever, but the equivalent a of a live performance of an audiobook isn’t automatically popular.
Live readings have been a huge part of my life. For over twenty years, I organized a literary event called Writers With Drinks, in which authors from very from man...
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Matthew
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Jun 18, 2024 12:16PM
in the old days authors did live readings of their work all the time. I remember reading an article from the time of Edgar Allen Poe describing his live reading of The Raven as "a revelation"
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Matthew wrote: "in the old days authors did live readings of their work all the time. I remember reading an article from the time of Edgar Allen Poe describing his live reading of The Raven as "a revelation""There was a review of Walt Whitman reading his own poetry which described his voice as like thunder and his poetry as earth shattering. That review was ghost-written by... Walt Whitman. :P
