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Which novels do you fantasize about seeing on-screen?

Jul 31, 2008
Today I close out IFC.com's List Month with ten works of fiction I'd like to see adapted for film. The list leans toward the contemporary and is by no means comprehensive; among other things, I intended to mention James Hynes' "Queen of the Jungle" (...

The hardest thing for a novelist to write

Nov 19, 2009
Haven’t read National Book Award winner Colum McCann’s fiction yet, but I like the advice he gave Marlon James: Risk sentimentality.

Susan Ramsey interviews Bonnie Jo Campbell

Nov 16, 2009
Poet Susan Ramsey and I have been corresponding for ages now, since she worked as a bookseller and I actually had time to answer my email, and she’s been urging me to read her friend Bonnie Jo Campbell’s short stories almost that long. When I finally...

Great Aunt Maude: teacher, car dealer — and Twain fan?

Nov 15, 2009
Maud is a nickname now, one most of my friends call me, but it started as a pen name. I chose it years ago as a sort of homage to Maude Newton, my great-great aunt, a woman nobody wanted to answer questions about. For the longest time, I only really...

For Stevenson's 159th birthday, a massive online archive

Nov 15, 2009
Alert Tartt & Tinti: Robert Louis Stevenson’s archives, partly held in private collections, go digital.

Other miscellany venues

Nov 13, 2009
Working overtime at the office for the next little while, so check Twitter if it’s quiet here.

Which novels do you fantasize about seeing on-screen?



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Martha T.
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  Congratulations! I love politics, so I think your blog is cool. Oh, my new book is "The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires," an urban political thriller. You may check it out at: www.newimagewriters.com/m ogul
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