“In Leipzig, you can wake up one morning and decide, ‘I’m an artist,’ or the next day say, ‘I think I want to be a journalist’.” This palpable sense that anything is possible is due partly to the city’s dirt-cheap rents: grand turn-of-the-century, 600-square-foot, one-bedroom flats go for as little as 300 euros a month (about $360 at $1.20 to the euro).
Tag: 07.04.10
Publisher’s Writing School Gets Some Traction
“The “Academy” is intended to give aspiring writers a literary experience which, like a good book, both educates and delights. Part workshop, part retreat, part literary tourism, the Faber teaching model has proven so successful in Britain and Europe it is now expanding across the pond, starting with Canada.”
Has “Reality” TV Led To Appetite For Documentaries?
“The relationship between reality TV and documentary is a tangled one… While audiences display a definite appetite for the real, it’s not clear whether the dominance of reality television has fed that desire or turned it into a craving for game shows and tabloid celebrity junk food tricked up as the truth.”
Surprise! A New Wave Of Literary Magazines
“Stemming from the edgiest enclaves of the book-loving universe, a glut of new literary magazines is giving a home to freshman writing and established prose.”