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Mitchell Finds His Inner Tolkien

After reading from his forthcoming release Slade House at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, David Mitchell announced that he has created “his own version of middle earth.” Like Mitchell’s prior works, Slade House will…

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A Year in Isaac Fitzgerald’s Reading

The Millions asked Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald about his favorite books from 2014. He picked, among others, David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks, Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter and Saeed Jones’s latest…

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Tart, Mitchell, and Gaiman to the Rescue

After years of financial struggle, Barnes & Noble’s enlists renowned authors like Donna Tart, David Mitchell and Neil Gaiman to help compete with Amazon this holiday season. While Tart and…

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What’s the Difference Between You and Your Great Great Great-Grandfather?

At the Atlantic, David Mitchell discusses his new novel, the poem he keeps above his desk, and how to write. He explains that his work involves writing about distance and…

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The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books

We make a case against David Mitchell's new novel, update the Indian American immigrant story, and interview a queer renaissance woman—all in Rumpus Books.

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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Woody Brown reviews The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell today in Rumpus Books.

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What Twitter Could Mean for Fiction

Following the publication of David Mitchell’s short story “The Right Sort” on Twitter last week, Ian Crouch considers the possibilities and limitations of the medium for fiction. He admires some of…

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This Week in Short Fiction

On Monday, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell began tweeting a short story called “The Right Sort” in multiple daily installments, compiled by Sceptre Books, readable from the top down. Set to conclude…

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A Father’s Striking Photos of His Autistic Son

In the vein of Naoki Hagoshida’s The Reason I Jump (and David Mitchell’s Guardian essay), photographer Timothy Archibald created a breathtaking series of portraits of his autistic son Elijah. Archibald originally started taking…

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Novelist David Mitchell on His Son’s Autism

In an essay for The Guardian, David Mitchell (author of the novels Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green, among others) provides a moving and honest account of the experience of raising a son…

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Announcing the 2011 Music Issue of the Believer !!

Ladies and Gentlemen, the 2011 Music Issue of the Believer Magazine is upon us. This year’s issue has got some unprecedented audible sensations, which I will relay in the following…

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