Jonathan Raban in London
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.31.03 | 8:46 PM ET
Until weblogs came along, you didn’t hear much about author readings in bookstores. Newspapers rarely feature accounts of the events. At most, they publish a single sentence beforehand noting the date and time. (Most U.S. newspaper editors are convinced that their readers dislike reading, as absurd as that sounds.) All of which is to say that I was delighted when a friend pointed out a detailed weblog account of travel writer and novelist Jonathan Raban’s August reading in London. Raban focused on his new novel, Waxwings. “First up, Raban discussed his penchant for writing fictionalised non-fiction, and then fiction with real-life characters and events, blurring these boundaries,” according to the thoughtful City of Sound blog. Interestingly, Raban himself responded to the weblog’s account. “I was saying to someone (in Seattle) last night,” he wrote, “that your version of that evening corresponded strangely closely with my own…”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
