MEMBER BLOG TAG: aliases
| Monday, May 3, 2010 12:26AM | | | | Alias, Author | Tags: World Voices, aliases, pseudonyms, Bernardo Atxaga, Alina Brodsky, Randa Jarrar
| | | In my visits to the various agent blogs, I’ve read about pseudonyms as a solution to a bad sales history, the idea being that U.S publishers are more willing to take on a debut author than one whose previous book(s) tanked. So when the moderator of the Friday panel “Incognito: Writers and Their Aliases,” Arnon Grunberg, asked if using a pseudonym when not forced to do so is an expression of narcissism, I though no—for the desperate author, it’s survival. However, panelist Randa Jarrar argued that writing itself is an act of narcissism, in that we create a form of art that takes up many hours of other people’s time.
Jarrar, Bernardo Atxaga, and Alina Brodsky joined Grunberg in discussing the importance of names... | | | | | | | Saturday, May 1, 2010 11:01PM | | | | Writers & Their Aliases | Tags: pen names, bilingualism, aliases
| | | Writers & Their Aliases
“Using a pseudonym without being forced by political circumstances is narcissism”—this was the provocative statement with which the moderator, Arnon Grunberg—who writes under both his name and a pseudonym—opened the session, inviting the panelists to respond.
Bernardo Atxaga took a very oblique way of answering, by giving us a history of the name of the Basque region where he was born. He... | | | | | |
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