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More Recommended Readings Some less-publicized picks of the season, from a sad young literary man (not)...
Quick Study | 05/06/08@10:54AM

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Good Reads The NBCC lists some recommended books of the new publishing season....
Quick Study | 05/04/08@09:20AM

Cults! Sexbots! Con artists! The usual Monday round-up...
book/daddy | 04/28/08@02:43AM

Northward glance Er, so who's Hugh MacLennan, anyway?...
About Last Night | 04/27/08@06:35PM

Every Effort Helps How to get book reviews into newspapers? Pitch them as "reader-generated content"...
Quick Study | 04/23/08@03:25PM

book/daddy | 04/21/08@06:49AM

Sprezzatura Agonistes The wounded piƱata of Lee Siegel's ego continues to spill its delicious candy...
Quick Study | 04/14/08@10:02AM

5 x 5 Books With Joseph Conrad's Best Scenes by Michael Gorra A primer from the editor of "The Portable Conrad."...
About Last Night | 04/10/08@07:06AM

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....
CultureGrrl | 04/01/08@09:12PM

Worst. Henry James. Title. Ever. A century will change the way things sound, on occasion...
Quick Study | 03/27/08@01:03PM

Locating the Book Review Section Is literary coverage part of the opinion section of your newspaper? If so...
Quick Study | 03/26/08@01:00PM

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....
Straight Up | 03/24/08@12:51PM

Litblog Coop (R.I.P.) The end of an experiment in using the blogosphere to promote literature...
Quick Study | 03/24/08@11:59AM

Jon Hassler, R.I.P. One of my favorite American novelists died yesterday....
About Last Night | 03/20/08@07:36PM

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...
Quick Study | 03/06/08@06:33PM

It's the new TV book show! Kind of like the old TV book show...
book/daddy | 03/06/08@02:48PM

The Library in Hell When bookshelves turn aesthetic, Satan becomes your interior decorator...
Quick Study | 03/03/08@07:05AM

Good morning, Monday round-up! Garfield's Endgame, Kang's Third Law of Time and the fashion sense of the average peasant....
book/daddy | 03/02/08@07:55PM

Quills are plucked Book award gets pulled. Not that it was really needed....
book/daddy | 02/26/08@08:49AM

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....
CultureGrrl | 02/24/08@09:24PM

Beachhead on the Potomac The National Book Critics Circle has landed in the nation's capital...
Quick Study | 02/18/08@06:35AM

Howl (Into the Microphone) Earliest recording of Allen Ginsberg "yearning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night"...
Quick Study | 02/15/08@07:42AM

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?...
FlyOver | 02/14/08@12:08PM

The Truth about Printers "We conquered the computers. Now they work for us." A righteous rant about ink on paper....
book/daddy | 02/13/08@01:22PM






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