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Salvatore Pane
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Moving Pictures
A husband-and-wife team of graphic novelists move from superhero tales to a stark, quiet story about art and the Holocaust.
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Kafka’s Unfinished Manuscripts: From Vienna to Tel Aviv and Potentially Home Again
Check out this utterly fantastic story on Kafka’s unfinished manuscripts over at The Independent. Usually unfinished manuscripts lead to something as blase as Nabokov’s The Original of Laura, but the story behind Kafka’s documents is as bizarre as any of…
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Harper Perennial Calling All Book Bloggers
So have you checked out The Olive Reader, Harper Perennial’s fantastic lit blog? If not, you missed their recent post calling all book bloggers to review HP books. All you have to do is leave a comment on the thread…
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Gary Shteyngart Discusses His New Novel, Facebook and Nuclear Holocaust
Check out this great interview with Gary Shteyngart over at New York Magazine. He talks about his new novel Super True Sad Love Story and his decision to write most of it in Facebook-style messages and updates.
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I Write Like…?
Yesterday Electric Literature tweeted about I Write Like, a new website that supposedly tells you exactly which famous author your writing style most resembles. All you have to do is copy paste an example of your writing into a box…
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The Ethics of the Book Blurb
Are there political advantages to writing book blurbs? Are there ethical lines writers shouldn’t cross? Scott Esposito of Conversational Reading weighs in using Nicole Krauss’ positive, to say the very least, blurb of David Grossman’s To the End of the…
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The Face of Privilege or Legitimate Bohemian Insurgency?
Mark Doten interviews Justin Taylor for Bookslut. Topics include bohemian insurgency, Kierkegaard, anarchists, Joseph Conrad, “Masters of War” and much more.
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We Alternately Kick Puppies and Save Kittens
Duotrope now offers interviews with participating journal editors aimed at potential submitters. Weave editor Laura E. Davis discusses her hatred of puppies among other pet peeves when wading through slush piles.
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The End of Advances?
“There are many arguments for and against the no-advance model, but I think it’s best summed up as follows: publishers will be much more willing to take risks on new authors if they don’t need to pay an advance, but…
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The Case For Fictional Towns
“Do writers from New York or Los Angeles or Boston create fictional cities to disguise their hometown? I can’t think of any examples. I think writers from small Midwestern towns are more likely to create fictional places, fictional families, fictional…
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Etgar Keret and the Fake Dedication
“Before I started publishing books, I wrote dedications only in the ones I bought to give as gifts to people I knew. Then one day I suddenly found myself signing books for people who’d bought them themselves, people I’d never…
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Updike’s High School Classmates Speak Out
The John Updike Society will hold the Inaugural John Updike Conference later this fall in Reading, Pennsylvania. Who’s on the guest list, you ask? According to Jacket Copy: “Acclaimed writer Ann Beattie and her husband, painter Lincoln Perry, will be…