For all you Net surfers…

Here’s a couple of interesting sites for your daily dose of literary gossip!

Beatrice posts daily blogs on all sorts of literary news, books, and even has some interviews with authors.

Or if you’re feeling scandalous, there’s Bookslut – but don’t worry, it’s quite PG.  The site’s full of book reviews and author interviews, most recently with Virkram Chandra, author of the critically-acclaimed 900-page epic “Sacred Games.” Despite

it’s length, the novel is a reasonably swift read, and intertwines the stories of numerous characters – a police inspector, gang lord, survivor of Partition – in Mumbai, India. 

Identity Theory includes book, film, and music reviews, but specializes in the 150+ interviews with writers and illustrators in its archives, including Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, and James Ellroy, just to name a few. 

For the poet in you, there’s Poetry Daily, which posts a poem by a contemporary poet every day. 

Perhaps you’re looking for an agent?  Everyone Who’s Anyone in Adult Trade Publishing lists every major agent and publisher that Gerard Jones, creator of the site, contacted in his attempt to get his manuscripts to the presses. 

So grab a cup of coffee or tea, pull a chair up to your computer, and get to know contemporary literature a little better!