This morning's Lull Report …

… courtesy of Dave Lull:



… Book Blog – Likely Stories, from Booklist Online —The Long and Short of Writing Longhand.

Over the past two years, I’ve been fascinated to see a small but noticeable number of authors going back to longhand. It is a process so physically and emotionally different from typing in front of a screen that it almost must produce different results — and from a writer’s perspective, that’s exciting.

I think it depends on whether the act of writing is what's gets you going or if, like me, you just write down what you've put together in your head. And I say that as someone who still has pretty good handwriting — thanks to those nuns.



… Second chance — Stanley Elkin: E-Book Lazarus.

… Elkin's best-known book, The Living End, has his most impressive character, the Christian God, who destroys the world because He never found his audience. Though Elkin published nine novels, three collections of novellas, two collections of stories, and other work with commercial presses, and although he won National Book Critics Circle awards for his 1982 novel George Mills and for Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995) and was a National Book Award finalist for three other books, Elkin never found his audience before he died in 1995.

… Vintage skepticism: John R. Tunis’s “The Olympic Games” (1928).

In the face of … Sochi-specific skepticism, we seem almost to have lost sight of our broader skepticism about the modern Olympics, which began as a celebration of international cooperation and the amateur spirit and have since become a spectacle of professionalism and consumerism. 

… Bottoms up: The Myth Of The Alcoholic Writer: An Interview With Olivia Laing.



Some writers are drunks. Some aren't. People who are drunks are different from people who aren't. They drink more.