Frank Wilson Event -- Save the Date
Posted on Monday March 10, 2008 at 10:29am.
Writers, readers, and bloggers in the Philadelphia area, please save the date to join us for:
A Frank Conversation with Frank Wilson
April 11, 2008
2:00 PM
Paul Peck Center
3142 Market Street
Drexel University
Philadelphia
Free and open to the public
Many of you know Frank as the (recently retired and much admired) book review editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and (not retired at all but much admired) proprietor of Books, Inq.
Topics covered could include:
—Book reviewing (maybe including how books get chosen, what writers and publishers do to guarantee that they will not be reviewed, how one gets to write reviews, what pressures a book review editor faces, what makes a book reviewer good)
—The Philadelphia Inquirer (including why Frank left)
—Declining space devoted to book reviews in newspapers across the country and the future of book reviewing
—Trends in book publishing and writing
—The state of journalism
—Blogging and how blogging intersects with any and all of the above (including what some see as the conflict between professional book reviewers and lit. bloggers and between professional reporters and news bloggers)
A Frank Conversation with Frank Wilson will be just that. This isn't a lecture, but a discussion, so bring some friends, bring some questions, bring some ideas. We start at 2:00 and should finish before 4:00. Refreshments of some kind are likely.
I humbly ask you to blog about this save-the-date announcement. I'd like to pack the house for Frank.
Mark your calendar for April 11th.
This event is sponsored by the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University.
April 11, 2008
2:00 PM
Paul Peck Center
3142 Market Street
Drexel University
Philadelphia
Many of you know Frank as the (recently retired and much admired) book review editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and (not retired at all but much admired) proprietor of Books, Inq.
Topics covered could include:
—Book reviewing (maybe including how books get chosen, what writers and publishers do to guarantee that they will not be reviewed, how one gets to write reviews, what pressures a book review editor faces, what makes a book reviewer good)
—The Philadelphia Inquirer (including why Frank left)
—Declining space devoted to book reviews in newspapers across the country and the future of book reviewing
—Trends in book publishing and writing
—The state of journalism
—Blogging and how blogging intersects with any and all of the above (including what some see as the conflict between professional book reviewers and lit. bloggers and between professional reporters and news bloggers)
A Frank Conversation with Frank Wilson will be just that. This isn't a lecture, but a discussion, so bring some friends, bring some questions, bring some ideas. We start at 2:00 and should finish before 4:00. Refreshments of some kind are likely.
I humbly ask you to blog about this save-the-date announcement. I'd like to pack the house for Frank.
Mark your calendar for April 11th.
This event is sponsored by the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University.