Interactive – and shallow? — fiction spells contentious Vookworm

Let’s say that you’re a novelist a bit bored with yourself and by the usual plots, who feels like trying to put two characters into a gravity-smashing relationship with each other.
Why not, say, a woman who allows herself to be seduced by a much younger man? Would she necessarily have to look like Demi [...]

On books as Bondmobiles . . . and a translation web site

When books become Bondmobiles, I expect that writers will be trans-textual getaway artists cobbling together scribbles, recorded music, spoken words, . . . moving and still pictures – some of all that newly minted, and the rest borrowed, licensed or filched.
Bondmobiles – who dat? You’ll know exactly what I mean if, like me, you hadn’t [...]

Adding sound to fury, signifying everything . . . ahem

Americans like to make a fuss about a writer’s ‘voice,’ or distinctive style of writing. Well, let’s say that I think the locution is more popular in North America than anywhere else — and I could be mistaken.
What interests me is speaking voices – not just the way they can sound exactly as you’d [...]