Bestselling novelist Steven Erikson gives us a glimpse into his creative process by deconstructing an excerpt from his much-anticipated next novel in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
Welcome to My Mind
I am very impressionable. Seriously. My subconscious is a sponge. A super porous, extra absorbent sponge. If my brain were toilet paper, it would be Charmin Ultra. Actually, that’s a good analogy, considering the amount of crap my brain soaks up. When I expose myself to a certain kind of media for extended periods of […]
Steven Erikson’s Notes on a Crisis Part III: Once Bitten
From Mongolia to Moscow to London, author Steven Erikson’s journey home is as angst-ridden as his time away on an illness-wracked archeological expedition.
Is a Future Without Libraries OK with You?
I think it was the book Generation X that provoked the extended riff with the circulation clerk at my local library. As she ran the book and a couple Beatles re-mastered CDs through the barcode reader for me, she asked, “If we didn’t already have libraries, do you think we would invent them?” She proceeded […]
Canada Reads. Do You?
You know the story about the girl who wakes up one day and realizes that she’s in love with someone who she’s known all her life, but never really paid attention to before? It’s a pretty common theme in trashy romance stories, and one I always dismissed as just plain stupid. I mean, how could […]
J.D. Salinger is Dead: Weren’t You Just Talking About Him?
When J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, died recently, he left a huge void for many people who were ardent followers of his writing and his myth.
Inspiration Comes from the Darkest Places
It wasn’t all fairytales and magic and happy endings. Here were real people, grownups, using their imaginations to come up with some really horrible stuff. And this was okay. Their books were getting published. I had to try it.
Being Broken, Being Human
The book Olive Kitteridge inspires reflections on “what it means to be human”, the power of words, and a broken stained glass window.
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