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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.
  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 2/21–2/27

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 21, 2015
Saturday 2/21: Joanna Fuhrman reads from her new poetry collection, The Year of the Yellow Butterflies, with Caroline Hagood. BookCourt, 4 p.m., free. Morgan Parker, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Mathias Svalina, and Natalie Eilbert…
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FBI Targeted Black Authors

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 19, 2015
Authors who worried the FBI might have been monitoring them were absolutely right, especially for Harlem Renaissance era authors. For more than half a century, the FBI kept tabs on black…
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Books on Television

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 18, 2015
Television is a great way to sell books. Oprah’s Book Club is the best known example, but Edan Lepucki‘s bestselling debut California certainly owed some of its success to the…
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Little is the Next Big Idea

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 18, 2015
Two years ago, it seemed the publishing industry couldn’t get enough of the XXL novel. But now, the trend may be shifting towards something smaller: the novella. Over at io9,…
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  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 2/14–2/20

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 14, 2015
Saturday 2/14: Aziza Barnes, Sasha Fletcher, and Montana Ray are Poets with Attitude. Mellow Pages Library, 7:30 p.m., free. Bill Berkson and Matt Longobucco read poetry. Dia: Chelsea, 6:30 p.m.,…
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Finding Comfort in Repetition

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 11, 2015
How many times do you need to reread Hamlet? Stephen Marche says he’s reread the play more than a hundred times. And all that reading has not been without effect. Marche…
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The Numbers Are In

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 11, 2015
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to launch a book club, book publishers were hoping the billions of Facebook users would translate into book sales. But the numbers are in,…
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A Library of Venom

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 10, 2015
Australia has some of the world’s deadliest fauna. A new library hopes to store samples of these creatures’ venom. Snakes, octopus, spiders, and even platypus will be caught and milked,…
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For the Love of Good Grammar

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 9, 2015
Bryan Henderson has made more than 47,000 edits to Wikipedia. This prolific career is not the product of Henderson’s great breath of knowledge, but rather because he has an obsession…
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Letters from Notable Children’s Book Authors

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 9, 2015
The Association for Library Service to Children has announced the 2015 Notable Children’s Book List, and it includes two authors who have written for Letters for Kids! Paul Durham, author of The Luck Uglies,…
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Building Literary Community, Online

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 9, 2015
A new website from Electric Literature and Grove Atlantic hopes to unite the online literary universe. The Wall Street Journal reports that the website is the latest attempt by publishers…
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Notable NYC: 2/7–2/13

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 7, 2015
Saturday 2/7: Omar Berrada, Huge Garcia Manriquez, Isabelle Garron, Jen Hofer, John Keene, Sarah Riggs, James Sherry, Stacy Szymaszek, Matvei Yankelevich and others celebrate Litmus Press. Southfirst, 6:30 p.m., free.…
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