Writing Unleashed with Laura M. Harkins

News Literary Blending with Fantasy/Sci-fi The Wall Street Journal discusses the line between genre and literary fiction, low and high art. Alexandra Alter dives into the  literary novelists’ struggle to compete with ubiquitous fantasy and science fiction.  Is the literary novelist’s move to blend their genre with popular fiction going to help or hurt them?     Analysis of All 7 Harry Potter Novels Sean Smith at The Boston College Chronicle talks about Romance Languages and Literatures Professor Emerita Vera Lee’s On the Trail of Harry Potter , “which she touts as the first book-length literary analysis of all seven Harry Potter volumes.” She breaks from previously published analyses to focus on how J.K. Rowling created Harry Potter and why. Would you purchase the literary analysis of the beloved YA series? Summer Reading List The New York Times runs down a list of 19 promising new books to keep you busy during the summer. Janet Maslin shows us that ...

gebasports.org Audacity comes to mind when I encourage you to visit my blog, dazzling with clever topics and expressive sentences, asking for comments, receiving nothing from me in return. Shouldn’t I offer you something for visiting? You might want to sit down for this one. So, I got to thinking.     Several blogs I follow sum up the week on Fridays.  Amie Kaufman does her “ BTW ” post talking about life beyond her blog, literary items of interest and updating her readers on what she’s reading.  Nathan Bransford updates his devout followers on the week’s literary news in “ This Week in Books ”. To generate more followers, I am taking a tip from the well-established bloggers and setting up a weekly blog post that keeps you abreast with evocative literary News , a rundown of ongoing writing Contests and silly Fun as an   attempt to lighten the mood.  A newsletter of sorts.      Don’t worry, the brainstorming didn’t end he...