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“All this leads us to the unavoidable conclusion that after over 30 years and countless pages Murakami has very little left to say. If the mediocre books of the 2000s didn’t evidence it enough, this book does; in 1Q84 there is simply nothing that M…
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You’ve probably read the recent hubbub regarding Alan Gribben, professor of English from Auburn University, and how he has published a sanitized version of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” that replaces the word “nigger” with “slave.” The “N word” is used more than 200 times throughout “Huck” and Mr. Gribben thought it his duty to [...]
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Over on Moby, there’s a bunch of speculation related to some off-topic, pro-Kindle commentary that has been coming in as blog post commentary through their queues. Given that a whole string of these appear to have listed the same exact URL, despite coming from various IP addresses, I have little doubt that they were indeed [...]
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Howard Jacobson’s book, “The Finkler Question,” just won the Man Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary accolade in Britain. Well that’s another one that’s going to go on my “to read” shelf, or at least on “ye olde Kindle” once I manage to steal it back from my beloved.
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How can you not like the Library of America? High-quality hardcover books produced by a non-profit and featuring some of the greatest writers and minds in our country’s history. I’ve been a Library of America fan ever since I was a fledgling literature major in college. Now, I am happy to report that they’ve gone [...]
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The Times Online has a great piece from Salman Rushdie gushing, in a very eloquent manner of course, about his love for “The Paris Review Interviews.” Great writers, it turns out, are actually quite inquisitive about the habits of other great writers. They need to know whether their colleagues are as crazy as they are… [...]
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I think that this article over on Guernica was written for me. Without ever reading a lick of Roberto Bolaño, I’ve already been drawn in by the myth of the dead writer; a myth that according to those who knew him, was manufactured by a North American literary machine plugged in to our intense cultural [...]
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The News Hour with Jim Lehrer dove into the discussion about how reading and publishing is changing as a result of big box retailers with their pricing wars and as the web and digital devices begin to circumvent the old publishing industry. It’s a thoughtful 11:30 minute take on the state of the book world [...]
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Yeah, you heard me right, that’s not a typo – it’s “Vook“. Strange name for a great overall concept and product that’s a harbinger of what’s to come. All you stodgy warthogs who think that it’s only about the printed page need a reality check. Most authors care about delivering their message and the printed [...]
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