Fwd: [fictionmags] Exciting new literary terms!

[Paul Di Filippo]

"Pynchonarazzi," anyone?

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> From: Steve Lewis <stevelewis62 at cox.net>
> Date: December 3, 2006 9:11:10 PM EST
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> Subject: [fictionmags] Exciting new literary terms!
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> BOOKS -- Exciting new literary terms! (Litrosexual?)
> Isn't it about time we had some new reading lingo? asap's Book Pusher,
> KEVIN SAMPSELL, comes to the rescue with his funny and
> knowing list of tomorrow's terminology ... today.
>
> Published Thursday, November 30, 2006
> By KEVIN SAMPSELL
>
> I recently heard the term "cyberlynching" for the first time. Someone
> explained to me at a bookseller convention that when a book is
> maliciously attacked by a customer on amazon.com, it's called a 
> cyberlynch.
> Typically cyberlynches are written by personal enemies
> of the author. It sounded dreadful, but it was a new word to me and it 
> also
> sounded cool in a way. I mean, the music industry always
> has great buzzwords and insidery terms. Like crunk, trip-hop, emo, and
> mash-up. I thought I'd make up a new gaggle of snappy
> book-related terms. Isn't it time this antiquated business got hip to 
> some
> new slang? Here we go!
>
> Austentacious: A book written in the style of, or influenced by, Jane
> Austen. See Emma Tennant, Karen Joy Fowler.
>
> Beer Can Mystery: The distant cousin of the Cozy Mystery (the light 
> mystery
> genre usually read by grandmother types, such as Rita
> Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie series), the Beer Can Mystery is typically about
> men, drinking, sex, and crime. See Joe R. Lansdale, Elmore
> Leonard.
>
> Cappuccino Caper: The younger, hipper sister of the Cozy Mystery (and
> probably ex-girlfriend of the Beer Can Mystery). Usually read
> in an Ikea chair or in a trendy caf?C, sometimes with a scone. See Kate
> Atkinson, Louise Welsh.
>
> Chabonics: A tragicomical use of language, named after Michael Chabon,
> award-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &
> Clay.
>
> Coma-prose: A book somehow narrated by someone in a coma. Example: Liz
> Jensen's The Ninth Life of Louis Drax.
>
> Evelyn Complex: Named after Evelyn Waugh (a man), for an author with a
> confusing gender name. See Curtis Sittenfeld, Carson
> McCullers (both women).
>
> Fauxto: When an author's jacket photo looks nothing like them.
>
> The Fifty Dollar Hour: The time it takes for a signed copy of an
> uncorrected proof to go on eBay.
>
> Frazier Factor: The resulting increase or decrease of author advances 
> after
> Charles Frazier's $8 million deal for his novel,
> "Thirteen Moons."
>
> Ghost written: A book narrated by a dead person. See "The Lovely 
> Bones,"
> "Carlito's Way."
>
> The Heterosexual Cloak: A style used by gay authors when writing for 
> mostly
> straight readers. There is also The Multi-Colored Dream
> Cloak: A style used by straight authors when writing for mostly gay 
> readers.
>
> Hick Lit: Stories marketed to unsophisticated, usually small town 
> people.
> See Jeff Foxworthy, NASCAR romances.
>
> Holiday Softy: A non-threatening book that is safe to give to in-laws. 
> See
> Mitch Albom, Nicholas Sparks, yearly almanacs.
>
> Kite Chaser: A book trying to capitalize on the success of Khaled
> Hosseini's "The Kite Runner."
>
> Litrosexual: Someone who prefers books to sex.
>
> Magical Falsism: Poorly-written magical realism.
>
> Mutual Backrubs: Blurbs written by authors for each other's books,
> sometimes known as "The 69 Arrangement."
>
> Pen Mother: An enthusiastic book club organizer.
>
> Piggy-booking: A book written in response to another book. See all the 
> Da
> Vinci Code hoopla, books about Ann Coulter.
>
> Pynchonarazzi: A small gaggle of photographers constantly in search of
> elusive author Thomas Pynchon.
>
> Sadtire: A parody with a tragic ending.
>
> Thirty Second Pickup: A sexy book cover picked up by the customer for 
> 30
> seconds while they look for more sexiness inside.
>
> WILF: Writer I'd like to fondle.
>
> __
>
> Kevin Sampsell is asap's Book Pusher, reporting on the word scene from 
> the
> inside. Sampsell is an event coordinator at Powell's
> Books in Portland, Ore. He also runs a micro empire called Future Tense
> Publishing.
>
>
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