Read Together, Serve Together
Sometimes we want to ignore it all: the stories about writers and literature and publishing, the news about new good books and new bad books. We want to turn our computer off, crawl into a dark space and by candlelight and in longhand draft our very own masterpiece. Now that would be news! But being a literary matador calls for swift movements and grace under pressure. It calls for drafting your own masterpiece in addition to managing a Web site, editing articles, reading submissions, et al. Do we have what it takes? We’ll see. Time will tell. Until then, we will continue to do what we do each and every day here at Dark Sky Magazine: grab the literary bull by the horns. The Library of Congress is a pretty big bull. So big it puts on its very own book festival. Bad art has the rage of a drunken bull. Avoid it at all costs. Multimedia is crashing the book publishing world: Read more about Vooks in Jacket Copy. The great state of Washington announces its winner for finest novel of the year. More editorials arrive, which debate the fate of Roman Polanski. Pol Pot was a maniacal bull but one crafty matador survived. Read the story in Words Without Borders. Finally, Dan Chaon, respected by most, revered by some and abhorred by others has a new book out. Apparently it’s deliciously good. And we’re happy for him. But you’ll have to excuse us. We’re retiring to our dark space, ready to draft with Bic and by flame. — Kevin Murphy
