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May 18, 2009
Modern Library Revue: #22 Appointment in Samarra 8
by Lydia Kiesling
This book is very spicy. I would imagine that it made an absolute scene upon its publication.
May 15, 2009
Neuromancer: A Book I Like 8
by Lydia Kiesling
Sometimes when you’re in a new place and you’re unemployed, it feels like all you do every day is sit at the computer and copy, paste, upload, send, one thousand times, and each time you pray that the job you are applying for is not in fact a fake job, and you’re disappointed 90 percent [...]
May 14, 2009
Amazon Gets Into Publishing 0
by C. Max Magee
Readers may discern a disconnect between the prevailing economic mood and the relentless innovation of online superstore Amazon. Even as whole segments of the economy crumble, Amazon is spearheading a whole new consumer electronics category with the Kindle, and as if that wasn’t audacious enough following it by releasing a bigger, more expensive version. Now [...]
May 14, 2009
The Millions is now Available via Kindle 0
by C. Max Magee
Our ambivalence about the Kindle has been on full display of late. Still, when Amazon recently opened up its Kindle blog subscription program to all blogs it seemed worth trying, if only to satiate our curiosity about what it entails. With The Millions freely available for all readers, its hard to imagine why someone might [...]
May 13, 2009
Beauty and the Arc of Terror: Rabbit Redux Reconsidered 4
by Garth Risk Hallberg
If life is a novel, death is an editor. It strikes through every extraneous detail. It erases periods of divagation, inactivity, and muddle. What’s left is the stuff of obituaries and of eulogies: stories that fit together with a retrospective snap. Applied to public figures who spend their lives “on message,” this tendency to condense [...]
May 12, 2009
The Millions Interview: Joe Meno 2
by Edan Lepucki
Joe Meno’s most recent novel, The Great Perhaps, is a beautiful and entertaining tragicomedy about the Casper family: scientists Jonathan and Madeline, their complicated teenage daughters, Amelia and Thisbe, and Jonathan’s father, Henry, who is willing himself to disappear, speaking fewer and fewer words each day. Meno is the author of four other novels, including [...]