Recent Articles
January 11, 2010
The Women 1
by Edan Lepucki
Director Jamieson Fry follows up–and perhaps surpasses–his incredible book trailer for Dan Chaon’s Await Your Reply with this one for The Women by T.C. Boyle
January 11, 2010
Finishing Novels in Prison 0
by Ben Dooley
The China Daily has an article today criticizing corrupt Chinese officials for signing lucrative book deals in prison. They must not know that some of the world’s most influential works of philosophy and fiction were written in the slammer.
January 11, 2010
Why doesn’t more foreign fiction make it to the U.S.? 0
by Ben Dooley
An interesting piece on why more foreign books don’t make it to U.S. shores. The take away? U.S. publishers generally don’t speak foreign languages and can’t readily assess a book’s quality.
January 11, 2010
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski 0
by Ben Dooley
Following in the footsteps of the recent Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, the Coen Brothers’ cult movie The Big Lebowski has received the Shakespeare treatment.
January 11, 2010
Envy 0
by C. Max Magee
Robert Birnbaum asked seven indie publishers to say which titles they wish they’d published in 2009. The last sentence of the piece (from Dalkey Archive’s Martin Riker) is particularly great.
January 11, 2010
Matt Steinglass Contra Katie Roiphe 0
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
According to the title of Matt Steinglass‘ new essay (a qualified rebuttal of Katie Roiphe’s recent piece “The Naked and the Conflicted“), “Today’s Male Novelists Do Write Exuberant Sex Scenes, But Mostly Lesbian Ones“
