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We are so behind and the interesting stuff keeps piling up, so here we go, down and dirty for your consumption: Check out the newly launched The Nervous Breakdown and the latest installment of The Critical Flame ... Floyd Skloot considers the new Brad...
Whilst we prep a large-ish Marginalia post, you'll want to cozy up with John Banville on Nabokov in the latest Bookforum:
Aptly, we may begin with the title. The dust jacket has it as The Original of Laura: A novel in fragments, while the title page...
GUEST INTERVIEW BY DANIEL A. OLIVAS
Michelle Huneven is the author of three novels including her most recent, Blame (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which has already garnered raves including a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. Her nonfiction...
Making a quick run back to New York to attend the Center for Fiction's Benefit and Awards Dinner so updates here are likely to resume Wednesday. Until then, bidding is still open on the Amoco Yo-Yo ...
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