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Book Bench

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Thanks, The Book Bench

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • April 26, 2012
The New Yorker’s Book Bench linked to our interview with John Jeremiah Sullivan. We love you back!
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  • Features & Reviews

“Poet of the Disregarded”

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • April 5, 2012
At The Book Bench, Teju Cole reviews Across the Land and the Water, the first major volume of poems by W. G. Sebald. Walking us through the collection, Cole sheds light…
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Female Detectives Then and Now

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • November 29, 2011
This Q&A with crime writer Denise Mina touches on office politics, rude women, and the evolution of the female detective. “Now you’ve reached the point where a woman is just…
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New Self-publishing Service

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • November 17, 2011
Book Country, an online community created by Penguin this past spring, has announced the addition of a self-publishing component. Here’s an explanation of how it works. “BC offers three publishing…
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  • Features & Reviews

Life Cycle of a Book

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • November 15, 2011
An interactive map of the life cycle of a book lets us visualize the publishing process. Hear about each step, from writing to author publicity and everything in between. (Via…
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Letter Play

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • October 18, 2011
“The challenge is simple: Create an image from a word, using only the letters contained in the word itself—and using only the shapes of the letters, without adding extra parts.”…
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YA Characters “Straightened”

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • September 13, 2011
Two co-authors of a post-apocalyptic young adult novel discuss how they were offered representation on the condition that they remove or straighten a gay character. “The conversation made it clear…
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  • Features & Reviews

Should We Fight to Save the Indie Bookstore? (Yes).

  • Sam Riley
  • September 12, 2011
Book Bench blogger, Macy Halford is lamenting the downfall of the indie bookstore. Much like the decimation of the video store, there’s a bunch of romance and nostalgia tied up…
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Obscure Sorrows

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • August 30, 2011
Do you have this? “Ecidivism: n. the habit of closing a browser tab to go do something else, only to absentmindedly return to the website you just left, which is…
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Wallstreet and Lit Life

  • Sam Riley
  • August 9, 2011
What better way to celebrate humanity than acknowledging unexpected cultural overlaps? Wallstreet and the literary life have got some overlaps worthy of discussion. Because sometimes, during tough financial times, consulting…
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Architecture Fiction

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • July 26, 2011
Founded in 2010, in New Orleans, The Hypothetical Development Organization, creates fictional futures for vacant, abandoned buildings or “implausible futures for unpopular places.” To learn more about this visual urban storytelling…
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Exiled Writers

  • Sam Riley
  • July 6, 2011
Writers exiled from their country of origin have a unique relationship to language, freedom and oppression. The context of a homeland functions simultaneously a point of inspiration for the writer…
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