Bondurant Reads at Baltimore Book Festival
I recently mentioned Matt Bondurant’s great story, Telemetry in the new issue of Glimmertrain. And of course, he was one of the earlier interviews conducted for Slushpile. This past weekend, Bondurant appeared at the Baltimore Book Festival where he read from his novel, The Third Translation and also took part in a panel discussion entitled…
continue readingDrugs, Vomit, and No Novacaine on Oprah
This was on all the book blogs last week during our power outage, but if you happened to miss the news, Oprah recently reversed her strategy of picking classics only for her book club. And the new selection is James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces. It’s an interesting selection for a couple of reasons, but…
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There were a couple of interesting book deals that caught my eye last week. –Our pals at MacAdam/Cage locked up Marshall Karp’s The Rabbit Factory which centers around a series of murders targeted toward a California theme park. James Patterson says that Karp “could well be the Carl Hiassen of Los Angeles” which is high…
continue readingUnder Construction
As you undoubtedly noticed this week, we were down for a few days. I suppose that server crashes are a fact of life when you run a website that generates no revenue and is really just a hobby-turned-obsession. But, in an effort to make sure something doesn’t happen again, we’re switching servers this weekend. So…
continue readingAward Nominations for Jones
You might remember our great interview with Stephen Graham Jones and also my recent book review of his newest collection, Bleed into Me. Well, seems I’m not alone in my admiration of this collection. I heard from a pretty reliable source that the collection has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner award. I’m trying to get…
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