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Ian MacAllen

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Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com.
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Russia’s Clandestine Censorship

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 23, 2016
In Soviet-era Russia, publishers had dedicated censors responsible for approving printed material. Many things were prohibited, and the rules were clear. In modern Russia, ostensibly censorship is banned, but complex laws…
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  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 2/20–2/26

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 20, 2016
Saturday 2/20: Joey Yearous-Algozin and Myung Mi Kim join the Segue Series. Yearous-Algozin is the author of Holly Melgard’s Friends and Family, transcriptions of Melgard’s voicemails. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m.,…
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Fight to the Death over Literary Genre

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 16, 2016
Two Russian men found themselves on the opposite ends of an argument over the merits of poetry versus prose. The two were drunk and arguing over which genre was more…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 16, 2016
A bookstore owner in Maine has collected a huge payday after a rare stamp sold for close to $60,000. One of the missing Hong Kong booksellers was a British citizen,…
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  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 2/13–2/19

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 13, 2016
Saturday 2/13: Michael Spears, Joe Gannon, and SJ Rozan join Trumpet Fiction with host Charles Salzberg. KGB, 7 p.m., free. Sandeep Parmar and Cody-Rose Clevidence join the Segue Series. Zinc…
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A Good Literary Agent Is Hard to Find

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 9, 2016
Finding a literary agent isn’t easy. It might just be the worst thing ever. Over at Publisher’s Weekly, Ken Pisani looks at the troubling process he went through until he…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 9, 2016
New York City’s St. Mark’s Bookshop has twice now been faced with closing over financial issues. But the store has a mysterious, rich benefactor who keeps pouring money into the…
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Book Collecting Thrives

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 9, 2016
Book collecting of antique and rare books remains big business. For example, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the original British version of the first book in the Harry Potter…
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  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 2/6–2/12

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 6, 2016
Saturday 2/6: John Wray and Will Sheff celebrate the launch of The Lost Time Accidents, Wray’s new novel. BookCourt, 6 p.m., free. Liz Howard and Lanny Jordan Jackson join the…
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Collectors Might Be Surprised That Rare Books Are Rare

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 5, 2016
Rare books are harder to find than many amateur collectors think, and its more probable that buying old books leads to hoarding rather than a big payday. Its highly unlikely,…
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The Last Private Libraries

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 3, 2016
Not all libraries are free and open to the public, and for much of modern history, private subscription libraries with paying patrons were the norm. While most libraries in the…
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A Writer’s Residency in a Bridge

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 2, 2016
Seattle plans on paying a writer $10,000 for a residency in the Fremont Bridge. The bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the most frequently opened drawbridge…
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