Articles by Emily St. John Mandel
August 27, 2010
A resolution 1
On the relative statuses of literary, mainstream, and genre fiction: a resolution. (From Stephanie Anderson, manager of WORD in Brooklyn.)
August 19, 2010
Staff Pick: Larry Watson’s Montana 1948 0
I spent a great deal of time on tour this summer, reading at bookstores from southern California to New Hampshire, and I encountered Larry Watson’s Montana 1948 toward the end of all this, a hot day in Ann Arbor when I had some time to kill before an event.
August 3, 2010
Strong Language: Kyle Thomas Smith’s 85A 0
“I’d like to live in dreams”: Holden Caulfield meets 1980s Chicago.
July 13, 2010
Night Shade Books Gets Shady 0
A publishing flap in three parts, with colons. 1: Publisher’s Weekly details unsettling allegations about Night Shade Books — an unwillingness to answer calls from writers or their agents, stolen digital rights, and missing royalty statements. 2: Night Shade issues an apology. 3: A wronged writer responds.
July 8, 2010
Five Apocalypses: A Particularly Catastrophic Summer Reading List 35
It’s summertime, and The Passage is everywhere. I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve been told that it concerns a post-apocalyptic world. Here, for your consideration and summer reading enjoyment, is a brief selection of my favorite fictional apocalypses.
July 5, 2010
80 Years of Cover Art Design from Faber & Faber 0
From The Guardian, a look at eighty years of book cover design by Faber and Faber.
