You know, I never thought I was one of those lazy bloggers who just posts links to The Onion, but…
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/novelists_strike_fails_to_affect
One of my favorite parts?
“No high-profile, red-carpet, star-studded telecasts of the PEN/Faulkner Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Awards, or the Man Booker Prize Awards were affected by the strike, since no such telecasts have ever existed. “
Of course, it would have been funnier, I think, if it had been a poet’s strike. Maybe I’ll go write for television.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
Felicity
Sheesh, Lady J, everyone knows that poets can be observed in the wild at bars and cafes, whereas novelists live in caves, picking imaginary bugs out of their hair 😛
EVERYONE would notice a poets’ strike!
Robert
“Although some initially worried that the strike could affect Hollywood by limiting material for television or film adaptation, fears were quelled when studio executives announced in January that they would continue optioning comic books and graphic novels.”
Ouch.