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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
So, you've been looking for an early 19th-century novel about metempsychosis? Look no further. Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself is back in print. What? You are not an ardent follower of tales of the metempsychotic? Let me explain. Metempsychosis is the transference of the soul or spirit from one body to another after death. Sounds like the kind of story Edgar Allan Poe might...
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Hulver's site (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Okay, let's cut the crap. Normally these little WFCs are small beer. But this time, boys and girls, the writers on this here site are going to be single-handedly responsible, as a group, as a group of single hands, for the triumphant resurrection of an honest to God lost and dead genre.
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A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
New York City Friday, January 18th at 7 pm McNally Robinson 52 Prince Street New York, NY 10012 212.274.1160 Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories by Gregor von Rezzori Zadie Smith and Gary Shteyngart will take part...
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CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 03/27/2007
From NBCC member Edward Pettit : The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving by Andrew Burstein, Basic (March) John Donne: the Reformed Soul by John Stubbs, Norton (April) White Walls and The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, NYRB (April) The Wounded and the Slain by David Goodis, Hard Case Crime (May) Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself by Robert Montgomery Bird, NYRB (June)
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