Category Archives: Links

We are all pornographers now

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Cora

Apparently, it’s that time of the year again. Time for another go-around of the eternal fight of literary versus genre fiction, cheered on as usual by critics rather than writers. In the past few weeks, Zone One by Colson Whitehead, … Continue reading →

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Still sick linkdump

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Cora

I’m still sick with a rather nasty cold I caught on the plane. Taking my Mom to the cemetery yesterday to visit my grandparents’ graves probably wasn’t the best of ideas, especially as both set of grandparents are buried on … Continue reading →

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One Year Blog Anniversary

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Cora

Or would that be bloggoversary? At any rate, today is the one year anniversary of the new corabuhlert.com blog. Well actually, it was yesterday, but I missed the date in all of the travel uproar. If anybody is wondering what … Continue reading →

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Back Home

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Cora

I’m back home in Bremen again. That is, actually I got back late last evening, but I was too tired to post or do much of anything else. Luckily, I seem to have evaded all of the coughs and sneezes … Continue reading →

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Quick Post on Consistency

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Cora

I had planned a much longer post for today, but I was busy with something else, so here’s a quick link: Dave Farland a.k.a Dave Wolverton has a great post about the importance of consistency in fiction. Found via Passive … Continue reading →

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Salman Rushdie is being controversial again, the Booker Prize shortlist is too readable and a headline from a parallel universe

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Cora

In a lengthy interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Salman Rushdie talked about a lot of things such as the fatwah against him, the persecution of writers worldwide, the Arab Spring, the upcoming film adaption of Midnight’s Children – oh … Continue reading →

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Margaret Atwood does not hate science fiction

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Cora

At the Guardian, Margaret Atwood talks about science fiction and speculative fiction, utopias and dystopias and how she views her own work. This should hopefully put all of those “Margaret Atwood hates science fiction and thinks it’s all just crap … Continue reading →

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Bilingual Children and the Challenges for Non-Western Readers and Writers

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Cora

I’m still busy with a bigger translation job, plus I have to go to a family function on Saturday which will inevitably wear me out, even though I’d rather be anywhere else. On the plus side, just one more day … Continue reading →

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Writing about Colours and Mary Sue

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Cora

I’m rather busy with translation work at the moment, so here are two links to other people’s posts: Lynn Viehl offers an interesting solution for the dilemma of describing colours at Paperback Writer. Seanan McGuire takes on the overuse of … Continue reading →

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Linkdump, mostly German literature themed

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Cora

The 2011 German Book Award, which was created to be Germany’s answer to the Man-Booker Prize and the Prix Goncourt, goes to Eugen Ruge for his novel In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts, which is a multi-generation family saga set against … Continue reading →

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