Notable New York, This Week 9/21-9/27
As the New York Bureau Chief, I thought it might be a good idea to round up some notable literary and cultural events going on around New York that I…
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Van Booy Wins Frank O’Connor Award for Short Story Collection
British writer Simon Van Booy has won “the world’s richest short story prize”, the Frank O’Connor award, for his collection Love Begins in Winter. Van Booy, who lives in New…
Reprinting the Public Domain, One Book at a Time
As you may already know, Google has been spending the last seven years scanning their hearts out, digitizing more than two million books that are old enough to be part…
Things to Think About: Publishing Links
The Department of Justice says nay to Google’s proposed Book Search deal. Joni Evans discusses the essential tools of publishing over the decades in The New York Times‘ “When Publishing…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus books has published reviews of a novel and two short story collections.
The Surreal Makes You Smarter
Allison Flood at the Guardian has dug up an article from the journal Psychological Science showing that reading surrealism may actually make people smarter. In the study, some subjects were…
Thurston Moore’s Audience: A Subjective Account of the Brooklyn Book Festival
September 13, 2009 10:37am – Walking by Book Stands Tao Lin T-shirts were dangling on hangers at the Melville House booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The T-shirts said “Tao…
If Charles Bukowski Wrote Peanuts
For some reason, I’m in Santa Rosa at the moment, and it seems that Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, was from here. I’ve figured this out because everything is…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
After reviewing the book blogs this week, I’ve decided that if I see the words “Dan Brown” ever again I’m going to punch myself in the eyes with a Da…
In the Fallow Air
Joanna Rawson is a piercingly passionate, necessary artist. The riches in Unrest are as demanding as they are beautiful.
TAD Update
The Adderall Diaries notches a couple more great reviews in the Seattle Stranger and the Washington Post. More on The Adderall Diaries page.