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loren-rhoads's picture
Jun.05.2012
i09 had a blog piece about self-destructive reading habits over the weekend (http://io9.com/5915122/what-are-your-self+destructive-reading-habits#).  I started thinking about my own reading habits. I used to read more fiction than I do now.  A lot of it was terrible, but I would slog...
thomas-burchfield's picture
Oct.21.2010
I have a question for all you kind visitors to my page, writers and non-writers, critics and non-critics alike: How do you read? Not what. How? I'm interested in what you have to say (You can reply here at the Red Room, or e-mail me at tbdeluxe [at] sbcglobal [dot] net) I ask because, I seriously...
bob-mustin's picture
May.23.2010
    A famous French critic once listed the 32 (I think it was) ways in which a novella can be distinguished from some other work of fiction that just happens to be a little on the short side. Among his more interesting distinctions was the question of elapsed time. In a true novella, he asserted,...
josa-young's picture
May.17.2009
I am sure a lot of people do this, but I find that my reading habits are very much dictated by my mood and what is going on in my life, and I don't despise anything. From the instructions on a shampoo bottle to the world's greatest literature, and everything in between. Because my first novel One...