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Are writers leading an independent bookstore renaissance? Ann Patchett, the bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder, has opened a new independent bookstore, Parnassus Books, in her hometown of Nashville. In this quixotic undertaking she joins… Read more »
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VIDEO: N+1 editor, novelist Keith Gessen among those arrested at OWS protests in NYC As of this posting, (1:10 am Friday, November 18th) police in New York City have arrested 240 protestors in various locations downtown, among them N+1 founding editor and novelist Keith… Read more »
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Another stupefyingly ballsy case of plagiarism elicits calls for another book to be withdrawn Spy novelist Jeremy Duns has been showing up on lots of blogs lately — including ours — for his fascinating posts about plagiarist QR Markham/Quentin Rowan. Of course, as he… 1 / Read more »
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Book reviews: Who do you trust? Sam Jordison wrote in yesterday’s Guardian about a party Melville House threw in London to celebrate the Not the Booker Prize. We’re only sorry that we’re all the way across… 1 / Read more »
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“Shocking” Russian novelist descends on Stanford Vladimir Sorokin, author of The Queue, Day of the Oprichnik, and The Ice Trilogy, is wrapping up month as writer-in-residence at Stanford University. Known as much for his shocking scenes… Read more »
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On Spinach and the National Book Awards What you can and can’t do with books The People Library Digitization of the music industry vs. the book world Demand a YouTube… Read more »
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INTERVIEW: Roxane Gay Our girl in Michigan, Abby Koski, interviewed renaissance woman Roxane Gay MOBY: You have so many great projects going on. How do you find that these different projects balance and… Read more »
