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The Grammar of TV and Film.

The catch? It’s not chick lit.

You can’t just prop a pair of shoes and a martini glass on any book written by and about a woman and call it chick lit. Yet regardless of what’s between the covers, publishers do: That’s the price of writing in the shadow of Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw. It’s an epidemic. The marketing department rubs its hands together at the thought of more sales and liberally applies the Photoshop fuchsia.

read the rest of the article, or, for a lively discussion of the issue, listen to the Q episode here:

A monthly reading and conversation with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. This month, Tobias Wolff reads Stephanie Vaughn’s short story “Dog Heaven.” Listen using the player, or browse below to listen or download.

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Fiction Podcasts: Online Only: The New Yorker.

A different way to experience a short story- the New Yorker Fiction podcast. Listen to a story- you can choose any story you like, but I highly, HIGHLY recommend the Tobias Wolf story “Bullet in the Brain.” About half way through the story, there’s very detailed a description of, not surprisingly, a bullet entering a man’s brain, and it’s like one of those moments in CSI only sooo much better. Notice Jonathan Lethem is here too, discussing a story.

For discussion, did you like listening to a story this way? How doe sthe way these stories are being told affect the way you experience them.

Spark | CBC Radio | Full Interview: Matt Richtel on Twiller (Thriller on Twitter).

Matt Richtel has coined a new word: Twiller. A Twiller is a thriller written on Twitter, the micro-blogging platform that limits you to writing only 140 characters at a time. This summer, Matt started writing a story on his Twitter feed. You can check in each day to see how the story has progressed. If you need to catch up, Matt has written a quick summary of the story. Matt’s experiment reminded us of the trend we saw last year in Japan, where some of that countries best selling novels were written on mobile phones.

Listen to the interview and think about how the technology we use to writer and “read” or “”listen” to stories hcnages the kinds of stories we tell. And check out the Twiller!