Wednesday, September 1, 2010

THE BEST BOOK PUBLISHED THIS SUMMER AND FOR MANY A SUMMER (maybe) AND A WARNING TO AVOID FRANZEN

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You hear it all the time: someone should write a book about it, someone should make a movie about it. Well, Emmanuel Carrere author of t...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

THE STRAND LOSERS: books they don't buy

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I have a friend who works for one of the Conde Nast magazines. Every few weeks he takes some shopping bags of review copies to The Strand t...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

WHY POETRY DOES NOT REALLY EXIST IN THE UNITED STATES

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ONE I noticed a flier for something that sounds truly revolting as the old comedian might have said: THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRESENT...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

WHAT'S A LTTLE EXCREMENT EATING: the Brett Easton Ellis Story

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===At the LA Times website there was a very convincing video for Bret Easton Ellis’s IMPERIAL BEDROOMS which Knopf was publishing. ===I a...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

A LITTLE HOPE IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMER WITH A CLOUD

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21 July 2010… 66 years ago this week, Count Claus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler. A few years ago a good movie VALKYRIE came out and...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

WHY PAUL AUSTER SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WRITING AFTER HIS FIRST BOOK

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It was bad enough last week to discover in the bookstore next to McDonald’s on Vitosha Boulevard in Sofia that Faber in London had published...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

REJECTION

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A letter from Dan Halpern at Ecco Press Nothing Doing is a terrific piece of writing, Thomas - experimental in the ways we used to admire, s...
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