http://www.teleread.org/2008/06/09/can-e-smarten-up-dc-fiction-and-other-local-and-regional-novels-too/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:03:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.teleread.org/2008/06/09/can-e-smarten-up-dc-fiction-and-other-local-and-regional-novels-too/comment-page-1/#comment-899361 Washington City Paper: City Desk - Downie Novel to Feature Investigative Reporting, Awkward Sex Scenes Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:18:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/06/09/can-e-smarten-up-dc-fiction-and-other-local-and-regional-novels-too/#comment-899361 [...] Reading Knopf’s description of the book on Amazon, it’s hard to see how he’ll pull it off without a few Postie stand-ins. And back in April, as the video below shows, he told Nathan’s owner Carol Joynt that the book came “largely from my own experience.” In the interview, he also discusses the responses he got from his agent and editor after filing his first draft of sex scenes. That’s at about 1:30 (via): [...] [...] Reading Knopf’s description of the book on Amazon, it’s hard to see how he’ll pull it off without a few Postie stand-ins. And back in April, as the video below shows, he told Nathan’s owner Carol Joynt that the book came “largely from my own experience.” In the interview, he also discusses the responses he got from his agent and editor after filing his first draft of sex scenes. That’s at about 1:30 (via): [...]

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