From the Newsstand

September 29, 2010

Under the Influence 0

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But did we quote from The End of the Affair because of our romantic failures, or were we failing romantically because we could quote from The End of the Affair?

August 16, 2010

The Franzen Cover and a Brief History of Time 15

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A look at Time‘s 83 literary coverboys and -girls reveals a waffling between reaching out and selling out that, today, we’d describe as Franzean.

June 7, 2010

The Risks of Fiction: On The New Yorker Writers Under 40 List 6

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The rewards of fiction can be greater than that of nonfiction—the ecstatic feeling of transport when you’re pulled into the world of a story, given a new window into human experience—but you can also come away from a story angry that the writer has just wasted 45 minutes of your life.

May 3, 2010

Will the iPad Change Publishing? Ask The Atlantic 11

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The cover of Fiction 2010 offers, to say the least, a provocative vision. The future is plentiful and bright—and there is not an iPad in sight.

April 7, 2010

Connecting Readers in the Cloud 2

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What if I couldn’t judge a book by a yoga mat? Would I find better matches, or perhaps more accurate ones?

February 3, 2010

Ample Reason America is Ruined, One Good Reason it’s Not 3

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James Fallows thinks about government like a broken down car, such that no matter how skilled the driver or where he wants to go, he’s not going to get there. We might have been better off if that were true.