THE LITBLOG CO-OP

SEE YOU IN APRIL ...

Thanks for visiting the Litblog Co-op. While there are plenty of interesting posts below about past LBC Read This! selections and nominees, we will be relatively quiet around here until around April 17th, when we announce the Spring 2006 Read This! selection (although, in the past, one of our members has been known to drop by a week or so in advance and sprinkle some clues around about the current batch of nominees).

In the meantime, if you’re looking for ideas on what book to pull down off the shelf next, visit the sites listed over to the left – they all have plenty to say on that topic.  And if you've got any suggestions - either for content for this site or books to consider - please feel free to use the comments box below or the email link to the left.

Finally, we'd like to welcome our newest member blogs, Fernham and Syntax of Things!

Looking forward to your return and participation in the discussion in April ...

The Next Five Weeks

We have now presented the initial post for all five books that were considered this past quarter:

Read This! selection Garner by Kirstin Allio

Other Electricites by Ander Monson

All This Heavenly Glory by Elizabeth Crane

Sabbath Night at the Church of the Pirahna by Edward Falco

Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson

While the posts themselves should whet your appetites for these titles, we hope that the next five weeks will cement your desire to find and read them.  Monday through Friday we will look at one title per week, beginning with Other Electricities next week, and continuing through the list above until February 23, when we jump back up to the Read This! selection, Garner.

We're hoping that having five weeks from the time Garner was announced will give everybody out there ample time to find it and read it before we begin posting about it in more detail than Dan Wickett did in the original post.

Each week is going to be set up in a similar manner:

Mondays - Ed Champion has interviewed each author via phone and will be posting podcasts of these interviews.

We will also be posting discussions about the work of the week, that are currently ongoing between anywhere from 2 to 5 LBC members via email.  These posts will probably carry over to Tuesday as well.  Feel free to join in via the comments sections!

Wednesdays - We are hoping to have each of the authors blogging right in the middle of the week on Wednesdays.  If you have any questions for any of the authors involved, please feel free to email them to Dan at [email protected] and he will pass them along so they may respond to them in a post.  They will also be checking in throughout the day to respond to any comments or questions left in the comment boxes to their posts.

Thursdays - It looks like we will have somebody from nearly each of the five publishers (Coffee House Press, Little, Brown, Sarabande Books, Unbridled Books, and Knopf) on Thursdays - editors, publicists, etc.  Again, if you have any questions in regards to these titles for the publisher, shoot them to [email protected] and he'll pass them along.

Thursdays should also see posting of email interviews done with the authors by Dan (with the exception of Rupert Thomson).

Fridays will see many miscellaneous posts:  Other Electricities - a post about the use of the index in fiction titles; All This Heavenly Glory - a post about authors as bloggers; Sabbath Night - a post about how these stories fit into the entire Falco catalogue; Divided Kingdom - this week will actually feature more individual posts about the work than the others for reasons defined in Megan's initial post about the title done today; and Garner - a post from David Kipen, newly annointed Director of Literature for the NEA, who will discuss NEA support for small presses; as well as a post about Coffee House Press, an NEA beneficiary.

As you can see, there will be plenty of new content and reasons to visit here daily over the next five weeks.  We look forward to hearing from you all.