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The Blurb #12: On Disturbance
The deciders of the Publishers Weekly Best 10 list “ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz.” Which is kind of brilliant in a way. Because everyone knows if you ignore things, you can maybe make those things go away.
No Ordinary Pile of Index Cards
The novel Nabokov was working on when he died, The Original of Laura, is set to be released in the US on November 17th.
The Black Mirror in British Art
Brian Dillon at the Guardian reviews a London exhibition, Dark Monarch, that traces imagery of the occult through British art, and Dillon devotes his review to exploring one motif prevalent…
ABA Challenges Big-Box “Predatory Pricing”
Two weeks ago, the American Booksellers Association, an organization of independent booksellers, asked the Justice Department to investigate what it describes as “illegal predatory pricing” by big-box retailers Amazon.com, Wal-Mart,…
Morning Coffee
Still have to work out a few minor tech problems, but we’re back. On eco-peril and how the Nazca caused their own collapse. Inflatable street art. Kurt Vonnegut’s book covers…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #25
Them’s your options. It really depends on your priorities.
TRUTH SERUM
Look Out in Front of You (Part 1)
Oh, hey. Did you know Truth Serum also comes in the form of several different books? They’re even for sale.
Duets with the Taliban
Just getting around to reading David Rohde’s epic, five-part series on his capture by, and escape from, the Taliban, which — along with the nifty interactive add-on feature — is…
Drying Out
“‘Listen, Truman,’ [John Cheever] told Truman Capote. ‘It’s the most terrible, glum place you can conceivably imagine. It’s really really, really grim. But I did come out of there sober.”…