Very Cool Website for Lethem
I stumbled across this very cool website while reading Maud Newton’s great blog, which you can check out here. Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn among others, has a very cool website that provides hours of fun. Just keep reloading the main page and see how many times it changes…
continue readingBret Easton Ellis Profile
And rounding out our coverage of The New York Times coverage of the book world (I promise I’ll dig up some more original content tomorrow, as opposed to just highjacking their news)… there is a really interesting profile of Bret Easton Ellis. Check out the article here. Keep an eye out for the Slushpile review…
continue readingBrown Dog’s Back
And since you just registered for The New York Times website, then you can easily check out this review of Jim Harrison’s great new book The Summer He Didn’t Die. Read the review here.
continue readingThe Place of Fiction in Today’s Magazines
Much has been made of the “death” of fiction and how the major magazines are reducing, or even eliminating, their short fiction programs. There is an interesting article by Rachel Donadio The New York Times that questions whether fiction is withering away because the public isn’t interested, or if it’s being starved by lack of…
continue readingBoD: The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
Drawing praise from luminaries such as Arthur Miller, Davy Rothbart’s new short story collection The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas is definitely a title to check out. Creator of Found magazine, Rothbart’s collection is being lauded in GQ where the critic states “our favorite story concerns an aspiring rap-opera writer who has a confrontation with…
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