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My pal Maryanne Stahl’s new book, The Opposite Shore, is now available, so order your copy now. Oh, and here’s an excerpt.
My pal Maryanne Stahl’s new book, The Opposite Shore, is now available, so order your copy now. Oh, and here’s an excerpt.
The Guardian has a profile of Alexander Trocchi, the beat author whose novel Young Adam was made into a movie that caused quite a stir at Cannes this year. I really shouldn’t use two relative clauses back to back like that.
Tim Pears picks ten “revolutionary” novels in this Guardian piece. He picked political novels, he says, beause “a novel can’t change the world. But a great novel opens the mind like nothing else. And when the mind opens, so too does the future”
What should/shouldn’t have made the list? Discuss.
You could design your own cover art, travel the country dressed in a riduculous outfit, or arm-wrestle a guy to get him to buy your book, like Eragon author Christopher Paolini. Or you could call a different book club every day, as did Lucia, Lucia author Adriana Trigiani.
Link via PL.
If you liked Land-Grant College Review as much as I did, then you’ll really enjoy this new piece they have up by the talented Mikhail Iossel: “Some Of The World Transactions My Father Has Missed Due To His Death On September 14, 1999.”
Newsweek‘s Malcom Jones writes about the surge in used-book sales. Says he, “I own a couple of Cormac McCarthy hardcovers from the ’80s, for instance, that are now worth $1,500 each. My indifference to collecting took a beating the day I discovered those prices online.” Heh. What’s in your attic?