This Wednesday is Crime and Punishment author Fyodor Dostoevsky’s birthday (he would be 188 years old). To celebrate, we’re taking a challenge taken up by the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade: What would Dostoyevsky say in 140 characters on Twitter?
“Don’t be an Idiot,” maybe? Share your tweets in our Question of the Week forum.
Posted on 9 November, 2009 Laurel Dewey’s inimitable heroine Detective Jane Perry returns in You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover, her first “blog entry” and the second work of original fiction created for DailyLit. Jane, whom Dewey introduced to DailyLit readers in Unfinished Death, is a tough detective with a disarmingly honest voice: “Being a cop is all I know how to do and I’m good at it. That’s not arrogance, that’s confidence…I can walk into a hot crime scene while the blood is still wet and death still hangs heavy in the air and I can hear the walls whisper their secrets. Sometimes I can hear the screams and pleas from the victims before they took their last breath.” Enjoy!
Our friends at HarperStudio, who’ve made Organizing the Disorganized Child: Tips and Tricks available free on DailyLit, let us know about a promotion they’re running, so we wanted to pass it along to you. The first 100 people to buy the Organizing the Disorganized Child book and send/email their receipt to HarperStudio will win a free 15-minute phone consultation with author Marcella Moran. If you’re interested you can find more details on HarperStudio’s website. Good luck!
In honor of Bastille Day (July 14), which sparked the French Revolution, and our Big Read author Jhumpa Lahiri’s birthday, this week we’re thinking globally. Who is your favorite international author? Why? Head to our Question of the Week forum to share your response.
Posted on 13 July, 2009