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Blog about books, reading, and the book industry. Readers can also ""ask a book question"" and learn more about what we read.
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A Booker's Dozen: The 2008 Booker Longlist

Nov 30, 1999
So long as the Booker Prize keeps longlisting 13 titles, I'm going to keep making that joke. The Booker season is underway with the unveiling of 2008's longlist.

Inter Alia #12: Tell No One I'm A Literary Snob

Nov 30, 1999
Film critics have lauded the French thriller Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One) with adjectives fit for a personal ad: "taut," "sexy," "smart..." Having recently caught a matinee, I'm willing to attest to its tautness. However, the climax reminded...

David Foster Wallace 1962-2008

Nov 30, 1999
It seems fitting to begin a reflection on the late David Foster Wallace in a fit of anxiety about reception - about the propensity of words, sentences, personae, to falsify or to be misunderstood. For example: I know this seems fraudulent an...

Red Herring

Nov 5, 2009
Languagehat points to the curious origins of the idiom “red herring.”

Paper or Plastic?

Nov 5, 2009
Paper or plastic? Hey, you with the Kindle! Stop looking so smug… E-books aren’t as green as you think.

The Glenn Beck book club?

Nov 5, 2009
Move over, Oprah. Glenn Beck’s got something he wants you to read…

The normative, the gendered body, etc. etc.

Nov 4, 2009
“The fiction of normative value(s) invests itself in the legitimation of the public sphere.”  Finally, you don’t have to make up your own bullshit, with this nifty academic writing generator!

Bamboozled

Nov 4, 2009
Minstrelsy lives:  At Reuters’ Oddly Enough, blackface in Belgium.

A Booker's Dozen: The 2008 Booker Longlist


Inter Alia #12: Tell No One I'm A Literary Snob



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