6 days ago by LibraryOfCongress

Carol Muske-Dukes: 2011 National Book Festival Poet Carol Muske-Dukes appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Carol Muske-Dukes is poet laureate of California and a 1998 winner of the Witter Bynner award from the Library of Congress. She is the author of many books of poetry, ...

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20 days ago by Donatella de Poitiers

This is the weirdest kind of fan letter, but I know that you will understand. How many times have I read book reviews in the New York Times that made me want to run right out and read the book, yet I never follow up on it? Well, this time started out as only a minor exception. I was cautious. I aske ...

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24 days ago by andyrossagency

Novelist Teddy Wayne wrote a great piece in Salon yesterday talking about the issue of whether male or female writers have the advantage in the world of literary fiction. As an agent, I think about this a lot. When I’m looking at submissions of literary or “upmarket” commercial fiction, this questio ...

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24 days ago by Brian D. Butler

I’m a big fan of British novelist/essayist/travel writer/critic Geoff Dyer (although some of his recent New York Times Book Review columns have baffled me). So, I was intrigued by the news that Dyer has written a book which explores the enigmatic 1979 film Stalker by the Russian director Andrei Tark ...

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24 days ago by intheflatworld

To assure one’s self there’s nothing that to read. Each week I look, and if I don’t see something like this, I breathe a sigh of relief.

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28 days ago

They're from a review of the new film “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” about Sept. 11. The review in discussion is Manohla Dargis' in today's New York Times. And as the reviews... Not enough right?!?! Visit the website for fabulous stuff

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38 days ago by RFW

A full page ad for Rosamund Lupton’s Sister - a book I devoured when it first came out - appeared in the first issue this year of the New York Times Book Review. Lupton has another book – Afterwards – that I looked for in the Heathrow terminal during a long layover. The salesperson marvelled that I ...

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39 days ago by Samuel J. Howard

John Plotz brings the truly great books to the pages of the NY Times Book Review: If the diagnoses in medieval texts were so psychologically acute, it’s very likely because the most ferocious accusers and denouncers were themselves acedia sufferers. Today, too, it takes an acediac to know acedia. Wh ...

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41 days ago by Stephen Brockelman

Collections of Nothing by William Davies King I look forward to the monthly emails from University of Chicago Press. Their free eBook program is a wonder. Their editors pick books that I usually haven't heard of. And, books that I...

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51 days ago by RFW

Four out of five – not bad. The five best fiction books for 2011, according to the New York Times Book Review section include three I’ve read and reviewed; one I am currently reading; the fifth I will probably skip – Ten Thousand Saints – unless you have a recommendation to reconsider? The other fou ...

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