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Litopia Writers Colony

The net’s first & foremost literary salon: our weekly flagship show

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01:00:57

Litopia After Dark 050 - All The World's Books In The...

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/11

Everyone agrees that last week's show was one of our best ever... but we might just shatter that consensus tonight. Our sujets du jour include:* Is Google’s Great Book Bank Robbery the beginning of the end for traditional publishing and bookselling? Our very own business guru speaks! * Dating and mating in the book business – what really goes on in those long, lustful editorial meetings – we spill the beans! * How a Mexican strawberry picker managed to bring down the entire world’s

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01:00:57

Litopia After Dark 049 - Kindle Porn

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/11

Finally, the Kindle may have found its market: but perhaps not quite what Amazon expected - it may just be the the new must-have accessory for pornophiles. That is, if a recent thread on FriendFeed is anything to go by... and yes folks, Litopia After Dark merits an explicit tag this week – you have been warned! Raising our sights for a moment, Peter is convinced that, in a blinding flash of revelation, he has seen the future of the digital publishing business - and it's Google, not Amazon, who

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01:00:57

Litopia After Dark 048 - Sachsgate and Farting Dogs

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/11

On LITOPIA AFTER DARK’s panel tonight are regulars Donna Ballman and Dave Bartram, more than ably assisted by Isle of Man writer John Quirk and British publisher-turned US-uber-agent Sarah Davies. The biggest news this week isn’t that Walter the Farting Dog is headed to the big screen – significant though that is. Since being published in 2001, this modern epic and its four sequels have sold millions of copies worldwide (the movie of the flatulent pooch will be produced by the Farrelly brothers

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01:00:57

The Litopia After Dark Halloween Special: The Spooky...

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/11

It’s Halloween and this week Litopia After Dark goes to hell as the panel get their fangs into some of the juicy topics up for discussion. The prominent atheist Richard Dawkins is stepping down from his post at Oxford University to write a book aimed at youngsters in which he will warn them against believing in "anti-scientific" fairytales. Prof Dawkins said: "The book I write next year will be a children's book on how to think about the world, science thinking contrasted with mythical thinking. I

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01:00:57

Litopia After Dark 046 - Hokey, Maudlin, Mawkish,...

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/11

Sentimentality is in the air on Litopia After Dark this week as we try to create a tear-jerking, heart-wrenching, sickly sweet best-seller (pass the sick bucket!). However, it all gets a bit over-emotional and we move on to more serious topics... Last week we took a look at the sex-and-blackmail scandal that propelled etiquette doyenne Emily Post to start peddling good manners as a commodity, nearly 100 years ago. This week, Emily Yoffe writes in SLATE about the lack of manners (as if we really

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00:53:08

Litopia After Dark 045 - A Heck of a Frankfurt

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2009/05/11

s week Litopia After Dark is delighted to welcome back Martyn Daniels, fresh from the Frankfurt Book Fair. We take full advantage of his ringside view and ask the question everyone is asking… how were the parties? A new book by Roy Blount Jr has just been published – Alphabet Juice (with nearly the longest subtitle in publishing history). Blount contends that "through centuries of intimate contact with the human body, some words have absorbed the uncanny power to carry the ring of truth." We try

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00:52:05

Litopia After Dark 044 - The Return of Richard (and...

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2009/05/11

On the show this week, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan – the British husband and wife equivalent of Oprah – are back on UK television screens… but did any of you notice? An essay by Theodore Dalrymple heralds a new social disease – “False Apology Syndrome” and we’re very sorry to have to ask you this… but, could you suffering from it? A new book is out this week - Patronizing the Arts by Marjorie Garber. In it, she considers the means by which most of Western civilization has paid for its

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00:47:23

Litopia After Dark 043 - The Influence of Writers

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2009/05/11

On Litopia After Dark this week we are delighted to welcome as our special guest Martin Toseland, former publisher at both Penguin and HarperCollins, and now an author himself. Martin’s book A Steroid Hit The Earth: The Catastrophic World of Misprints is published on 10th October. In the week that Gwyneth Paltrow launches GOOP, a website designed for her to tell us how to live better, we ask... why? A disturbing article in the current American Scholar describes precisely how muzzled both authors

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00:18:01

Litopia After Dark 042 - Art for Art's Sake

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

3368772386_e408f47eaeIn the week when Damien Hirst made $198 million selling pickled animals, famed art critic Robert Hughes all but crucified Hirst and his "dull witted" patrons in an outspoken attack published in The Guardian. On Litopia After Dark we discuss whether Hirst is a pioneer - or a pirate, as Hughes maintains. Also, British children's authors who visit schools and libraries more than once a month will need to register with the Independent Safeguarding Authority as of October 2009. Is

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00:18:01

Litopia After Dark 041 - Corporate Publishing is Doomed

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2009/05/10

In the week when the world’s financial industries appeared to go into meltdown, Litopia After Dark zeroes in on the impact this will have on the publishing industry. What effect will the credit crunch and looming global economic disaster have on the world of books? We also discuss e-readers, following disturbing research showing that on-screen reading is flawed. Is the e-reader doomed? And, after Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a new Hitchhiker instalment, we ask if resurrecting old

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00:18:01

Litopia After Dark 040 - Lipstick On A Pig

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2009/05/10

The J.K. Rowling plagiarism case, psychoanalysing the mind of the Republican voter and mad scientists... such a medley of topics can only be found on Litopia After Dark. This week, as well as deciding whether we think JK has won a victory for writers everywhere, we also try to pitch our novels to the Agent, and solve the ticklish issue of an anonymous listener who's addicted to tarting up his pig. Seriously. On the panel this week we are delighted to welcome back Dr Susan O'Doherty, writer,

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00:18:01

Litopia After Dark 039 - Campaign for the Book

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

Litopia After Dark this week has not one but two very special guests. We welcome back novelist, journalist, actress and broadcaster, Amanda Lees, author of the Kumari Goddess of Gotham teen novels. Also we are delighted to welcome Alan Gibbons, author of numerous award winning children's titles including the Blue Peter Award winning, Shadow of the Minotaur and the Carnegie Shotlisted, The Edge. Alan has launched a campaign against library closures in the UK, recruiting to his cause so far, Philip

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00:18:01

Litopia After Dark 038 - All Change

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

Litopia After Dark this week has a new format. Buoyed up by the roaring success of our Summer Specials (thank you all for your wonderful feedback) we've incorporated a few of your favourite segments into the regular show. This week not only do we discuss why there are so few males in the Publishing business, we also play Pitch The Nasty Agent. Amazon gobbles up yet another massive internet company - Shelfari, a social networking startup for book lovers - and we chat about our experience of

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00:18:01

Litopia After Dark 037 - Semi-Colonic

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

On Litopia After Dark this week The Boston Globe reports that the semicolon is in trouble. And, dare we say punctuation in general. Is this the end of civilisation as we know it - or simply the end of dead-end pedantry? And Biographies - an endangered species? Both the quality and quantity of biographies is falling, says the Guardian. What do we read into this? Also, the dumbing down of society. Don't Trust Anyone Under 30 says the author of newly-published "The Dumbest Generation" - they're

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00:18:01

Litopia After Dark 036 - Gossip & Scandal

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

We're back! Did you miss us? We missed you! In our first Litopia After Dark of the season we're talking about the pitfalls of self-publishing and the plunging sales of the gossip magazine. We also cover freedom of speech as Random House pull a novel by Sherry Jones called The Jewel of Medina. Our regular Amazon spot is back and this week we look at Audible's impending launch of an imprint to showcase titles from indie publishers before they're published and we chat about the built in

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00:18:01

Litopia Summer Special: Masterclass

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

It's the last week of our holidays and Litopia After Dark brings you some stunning interviews from Donna. David Diaz, Caldecott winner, talks about children's book illustrating and the relationship between illustrators and writers. Sid Fleischman, Newberry winner, talks about writing, whether you can tell when you're writing an award winning book, and how to succeed in the biz. Adrian Fogelin, children's writer, tells the good, the bad, and the ugly about the life of the midlist writer, the writing

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00:18:01

Litopia Summer Special: The Early Years

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2009/05/10

Litopia After Dark is on holiday! But don't despair. Since we're a resourceful bunch we've put together a montage of our best bits for your listening pleasure. So sit back, get a glass of something cold and enjoy!

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00:49:43

Litopia Summer Special: The Holiday Reading Show

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

Are you heading off to some exotic idyll for a fortnights R & R? Or maybe you're venturing off alpaca shearing in Outer Mongolia? Or perhaps, you're skint and sitting on a deck chair in your back garden. No matter where you're spending your hard earned break let Litopia After Dark give you the low down on the must reads of the summer. Dave, Donna, Carolyn, Eve and Peter recommend books for your reading pleasure over the long, hot, summer days.

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01:04:04

Litopia After Dark 032 - The Publish-Or-Be-Damned...

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

3404210482_92f6b66461Our last, and without doubt most outrageous (note the "Explicit" rating) live offering before the long summer break - we proudly present our most ambitious and most perfect game show offering, for your amusement and delectation. Panelists Donna Ballman, Dave Bartram, Paul Baker, Carolyn Soutar and very special guest "Dr. Sue" Susan O'Doherty embark on a positively neo-Darwinian competitive frenzy of combat - publishing-style! Fortunately, our own Eve Harvey is on hand to keep

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00:42:16

Litopia After Dark 031 - The Famous Litopia Game Show

Litopia After Dark 26 - 50 ·

2009/05/10

As we continue our long wind-down into the summer holidays Litopia After Dark is proud to present The Famous Litopia Game Show! The contestants battling it out for the title of Game Show Legend were Dave Bartram, Donna Ballman, John Quirk and me (Eve Harvey, Podcast Officer extrordinaire). And I was rubbish. Not just a bit rubbish but really rubbish. Where were the questions about Captain Underpants? Where were the quotes from Gerri Halliwell? Why didn't we have to recognise the blurb from

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