This post is inspired by two very different book reviews. On 7 November Laura Miller published in Slate the review of Rebecca Yarros’s Iron Flame. The piece is titled “‘I’ve Been Yours for Longer Than You Could Ever Imagine”: Is the dragon-school ‘romantasy’ series that’s dominating the bestseller lists actually any good?” On 10 November […]
Este post está inspirado en dos reseñas de libros muy diferentes. El 7 de noviembre Laura Miller publicó en Slate la reseña de Iron Flame de Rebecca Yarros. El artículo se titula “‘I’ve Been Yours for Longer Than You Could Ever Imagine’: Is the dragon-school ‘romantasy’ series that’s dominating the bestseller lists actually any good?” […]
Back in August I wrote a post called “Chronicling the Death of Literature (II): The Writer as Influencer” in which I referred mainly to top-selling American author Colleen Hoover as the main example of the writer who succeeds despite lacking the support of the conventional media and thanks to the social media. I return to […]
En agosto escribí una entrada titulada “Crónica de la muerte de la literatura (II): El ecsritor como influencer” en la que me refería principalmente a la autora estadounidense Colleen Hoover como el principal ejemplo de la escritora que triunfa a pesar de carecer del apoyo de los medios convencionales y gracias a las redes sociales. […]