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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small entrance fee, the fair is already going strong in its 26th year despite a significantly reduced budget , and is celebrating authors big and small. Says the Miami New Times : The afterparties are nil and the fashions are more along the lines of smoking...
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A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
As I'm in the opening throes of National Novel Writing Month, I, certainly, am not really writing the Great Novel. I'm thinking too fast and the grammar errors. Oh my! That's not to say I can't write a great novel. You can, too! The Wall Street Journal asks top authors (like Junot Diaz and Nicholson Baker) how to write one. From the piece... Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk often rewrites...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Orhan Pamuk is a man in love. So is Kemal, the narrator of Pamuk's shimmering, brimming new novel The Museum of Innocence (Knopf, $28.95).
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Isak (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Alexandra Alter has an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about the unusual tactics that seventeen writers have for crafting their fiction. Junot Díaz, Edwidge Danticat, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hillary Mantel, Richard Powers, and Orhan Pamuk are among those who divulge their secrets. Here's part of Colum McCann's story: When he's in the middle of a novel, Colum McCann sometimes prints out...
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rickwebb.net (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
elseplace: The Museum of Innocence, A Love Story by Orhan Pamuk :p. Orhan Pamuk starts a museum as an extension of his latest novel. Interesting.
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Bumpershine.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In anticipation of the holidays, big time book readings are starting to slow down a little at our local area chains, but there are still a few good things this month. Here’s a list of November B&N and Borders events that I thought were interesting for one reason or another: November 2009 Barnes & Noble (NYC) 11/05/09 [...]
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Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The striking woman in the photo above is Marie NiDiaye, the first black woman to win France's top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. (thanks Raquel! photo from LAT ) Spooky new story by Kelly Link. I haven't read it yet, but I love her so I will print this story out to read on the subway. Y'all know how I feel about NaNo, but if you cough up a novel this month, FastPencil will give you a free printed...
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sotosay (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer, I think is a major writer of our times. The sense of complex texture he brings to his writing is amazing. A book like Istanbul is remarkable both for the rich kernel as for the fine fabric that it is woven in. He takes us in circles: book about book, [...]
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's new novel, The Museum of Innocence, is now on bookshelves. Not yet available to the public is the corresponding real-world museum he is in the midst of building, which will open next year. In Pamuk's novel, the protagonist, Kemal, collects artifacts of his beloved, and ultimately uses them to construct a shrine to her, which he calls the Museum of Innocence. The physical...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
“I am a writer. I have books to write. What am I doing building a museum'” Orhan Pamuk on his latest endeavor. (Via.)
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<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Orhan Pamuk has made a whole museum in Istanbul to accompany his latest novel, The Museum of Innocence. Coupons for entry can be found in the book. Pretty cool slide show of exhibits (and article) from NYT Magazine.
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Lolita on the Bosporus By Maureen Howard Published: October 29, 2009 Orh an Pamuk favors short chapters that lead the reader from one entry to the next, turning back to correct or amend. He is directorial in “ The Museum of Innocence ,” his enchanting new novel of first love painfully sustained over a lifetime. In 83 chapters, a privileged Istanbul resident named Kemal tells of his obsession...
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Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Book lovers, get ready to celebrate because the 26th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International (Fair), is just around the corner. Presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College (MDC), the Fair will take place Nov. 8 – 15 at the college’s Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Ave., in downtown Miami. The Fair...
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BOOKED (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
the other day as i usually do, i picked up a book at random but this time not from those nicely lined in book racks of my three thousand or so books in my personal library (and still expanding) but from the stacks of books under my bed which are waiting to be put in their proper place on book racks which i couldn't because they are now full and turned out this book is other colours ,a collection of...