Megan, I had another thought about a food piece of writing: James Joyce's The Dead.
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
'Shells'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kat - Feb 09, 2011 7:35:18 am PST #13914 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2011 7:39:03 am PST #13915 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's actually a lot of food porn in the Narnia Chronicles
Enid Blyton would get me cross-eyed about food I couldn't have, especially the tuck boxes in the boarding school books. And LotR is about a lot of things, but those hobbits sure did like feeding.
sumi - Feb 09, 2011 7:59:37 am PST #13916 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
New novel with mystery and supernatural elements written by a former writer for Doctor Who.
sumi - Feb 09, 2011 8:56:41 am PST #13917 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Washington Post piece on the man who is The Tolkien Professor online and in itunes. (There is a podcast and it starts up when you open his website.)
Connie Neil - Feb 09, 2011 9:07:30 am PST #13918 of 28282
brillig
"I don't think he's heard of Second Breakfast."
megan walker - Feb 09, 2011 9:34:14 am PST #13919 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Washington Post piece on the man who is The Tolkien Professor online and in itunes.
He was my colleague at Washington College! Sadly, he wasn't part of our Wednesday night drinking group. Students love him.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2011 1:19:57 pm PST #13920 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Feb 09, 2011 1:22:21 pm PST #13921 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Man, I was just coming to post that.
And I have to say - I find the idea confusing. At first, I thought she was writing an episode for the tv show but no- that's not it at all. She must have given up ownership or authorship of her series, huh?
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2011 1:30:10 pm PST #13922 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She never had it. It was work for hire all the way.
Amy - Feb 09, 2011 1:32:41 pm PST #13923 of 28282
Because books.
Work for hire is a specific type of contract. The publisher essentially wanted a vampire series, so they contacted agents looking for writers who wanted to try out. When they found one with a decent idea, they hired her to write the books, on a book by book basis. The publisher retains rights to the series in that case -- the author is an employee.
I did a deal like that with Penguin, and it was a circle jerk and a horrible experience, but it was essentially book by committee, which I hadn't anticipated.