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More Recommended Readings Some less-publicized picks of the season, from a sad young literary man (not)...
No-longer-famous authors, would-be famous cartoonists We'll call it a round-up....
Good Reads The NBCC lists some recommended books of the new publishing season....
Cults! Sexbots! Con artists! The usual Monday round-up...
Northward glance Er, so who's Hugh MacLennan, anyway?...
Every Effort Helps How to get book reviews into newspapers? Pitch them as "reader-generated content"...
Fly tipping, a self-doubting Beckett and what Evelyn Waugh would never forgive It's the Monday round-up...
Sprezzatura Agonistes The wounded piñata of Lee Siegel's ego continues to spill its delicious candy...
5 x 5 Books With Joseph Conrad's Best Scenes by Michael Gorra A primer from the editor of "The Portable Conrad."...
Management Shake-Up at Edith Wharton's Estate, The Mount Stephanie Copeland is out. The financial situation is desperate. But her focus on the site's glorious literary history should remain....
Worst. Henry James. Title. Ever. A century will change the way things sound, on occasion...
Locating the Book Review Section Is literary coverage part of the opinion section of your newspaper? If so...
Not the Yellow Brick Road The title "Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of Oz" tells you it's an unusual novel. But it still doesn't prepare you....
Litblog Coop (R.I.P.) The end of an experiment in using the blogosphere to promote literature...
Jon Hassler, R.I.P. One of my favorite American novelists died yesterday....
National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced The literary prize decided exclusively by people who don't give a damn if something is a best-seller or not...
It's the new TV book show! Kind of like the old TV book show...
The Library in Hell When bookshelves turn aesthetic, Satan becomes your interior decorator...
Good morning, Monday round-up! Garfield's Endgame, Kang's Third Law of Time and the fashion sense of the average peasant....
Quills are plucked Book award gets pulled. Not that it was really needed....
Edith Wharton Cliffhanger: No Mirth at the Home of "House of Mirth" The author's former Berkshires home, The Mount, defaults. "If you build it, they will fund" is a dicey business plan....
Beachhead on the Potomac The National Book Critics Circle has landed in the nation's capital...
Howl (Into the Microphone) Earliest recording of Allen Ginsberg "yearning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night"...
Tis the season...to complain about contests It's easier to find journalism awards for coverage of colo-rectal science than for coverage of the arts. What gives?...
The Truth about Printers "We conquered the computers. Now they work for us." A righteous rant about ink on paper....