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Vulture (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Behold the deal-making power of recently merged megaagency William Morris Endeavor: The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter have revealed that WME client Michael Bay has bought film rights to the first book in a six-part series of young-adult sci-fi novels co-written by none other than WME client James Frey. Riding high on his Transformers windfall, Bay reportedly paid in the "high six...
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
New Zealand author Charlotte Grimshaw’s latest collection, Singularity , shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award The shortlist for the 2009 Cork-City Frank O'Connor Short Story Award has been decided by an international jury. The award at 35,000 euro is the richest prize in the world for the short story form and is given annually to an original collection of stories judged to...
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Maitresse (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Back in February I was triple-booked for the one evening I would have given anything to have had free: Mavis Gallant and Jhumpa Lahiri gave a joint reading at the Village Voice. I knew even if I canceled my three...
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At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Please join me in welcoming Heather Barbieri; the author of The Lace Makers of Glenmara . What was the inspiration for your story? A trip to the Gaelic-speaking west of Ireland and reading a brief news item in the NYT Magazine fashion supplement about a group of Polish lace makers who were threatened with excommunication by their village priest for making lace panties. [I was curious about how realistic...
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The Orange Prize Project (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
July 1 is just a few days away, and I have many wonderful books to choose for Orange July - a personal challenge to read at least one book that has been nominated for or won the Orange Prize. This is the second annual Orange July , and it's taken off like wildfire. I am so excited! I hope you'll consider joining us Orange Lovers for a great month of reading. My Orange Books WINNERS: Fugitive Pieces...
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India eNews (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
The Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 shortlist is star-studded -- and finding place are 'The Enchantress of Florence' by Salman Rushdie, 'Sea of Poppies' by Amitav Ghosh, 'Unaccustomed Earth' by Jhumpa Lahiri, 'Past Continuous' by Neel Mukherjee and 'Escape' by Manjula Padmanabhan.
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Silent Eloquence (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
I just started reading Francine Prose's Reading like a writer. It makes me wonder why I choose to read the books that I read. I read Bohumil Hrabal's Too Long a Solitude, because the life of a book destroyer in Prague intrigued me, it was beyond my imagination before I read it. I read Briane Greene's The Elegant Universe because I was in a phase in my life where string theory fascinated me, and thought...
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Things I'd Rather Be Doing (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Ten years ago today, the June 21 & 28, 1999 issue of the New Yorker hit the mailbox (yes, we get it late out here in flyover country). It was the fiction issue, though this one came with a twist: It identified 20 writers who were dubbed "The Future of American Fiction." The list: Sherman Alexie, Donald Antrim, Ethan Canin, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Tony Earley, Nathan...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Brooklyn Downtown Star By Sean Elder Bruce Ratner has finally made it official: Frank Gehry is out as designer of the ill-fated Atlantic Yards Project. ... "At this point the Atlantic Yards plan has nothing to do with the project New Yorkers were promised," the Times concluded. Gehry was always just the shiny bauble, or maker of shiny baubles, that hypnotized some well-meaning citizens....
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
SeanElder.com The Brooklyn writer/editor/blogger offers a rebuke to the "cultural missionaries" who swallowed Bruce Ratner's Gehry-bait hook, line and sinker. I was at a benefit for the the Brooklyn Museum not long ago, seated between a couple of well-heeled benefactors — both, notably, from the Upper East Side — when the subject came up. One of them mentioned how much she loved...
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Hello, My Name Is Alice (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
This is the first time I am participating in Mailbox Monday and I know I couldn't resist it any longer after seeing the meme on so many other booklovers' blogs. This meme is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page . The following books came into my house last week: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks Do click on the link...
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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Its laudatory impulses notwithstanding, Lewis Menand's worthwhile essay in the current New Yorker on Mark McGurl's The Program Era - an account of the rise of the creative writing program - doesn't quite save the book from sounding depressing. For those with ambitions to write fiction, Menand offers a whirlwind tour of a sausage factory. Except that in this case you're not the guy who likes to eat...
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The Daily Blague (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
In the current issue of Granta, Jhumpa Lahiri interviews Mavis Gallant. I’ve been reading Ms Gallant’s stories off and on ever since they began reappearing in NYRB editions — to the third of which Ms Lahiri will write the introduction. Along with a lot of interesting personal matter, the interview touches on three of Ms [...]
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Bloggin' Outloud (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Collection of short stories from Bengali/Indian-American perspective. Poignant and forlorn. Definite recommend. Fuller review later.
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