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Odds and Ends

by Sharon Steel | June 19, 2008
The winning story of Boston Review's 15th annual fiction contest is online ; I think it's unpretentious and moving. Advance Reading Copies are the new cute dogs -- they do all the romantic luring for you. (They also make excellent -- and free...

For the Twitter Addicts...

by Sharon Steel | June 05, 2008
It's bkkeepr ! We like. [Link via Russell Davies ]

Exploring Goodreads

by Sharon Steel | June 03, 2008
I finally got around to reading my May email update from Goodreads.com , one of several social networking sites for book nerds like me. (I use it primarily to keep track of my own current reading habits / progress; I’m less interested in reading/writing...

Making Love With Norman

by Sharon Steel | April 23, 2008
How stoked was Richard Johnson when he and the rest of the Page Six crew got to slap the headline " Mailer's Lust Goes to Harvard " on today's Post ? We're still getting over the ick-factor, but the item is pretty interesting, if...

Unaccustomed Earth's Swift Rise

by Sharon Steel | April 15, 2008
Yesterday, we told you about Sloane Crosley's debut on the Times 's nonfiction paperback bestseller list, yet we neglected to rhapsodize about the #1 book on the hardcover fiction list . That would be Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's...

Virtual Bookish Collage Crafting!

by Sharon Steel | April 10, 2008
Okay!! Our editor sent us this link to Polyvore a couple of weeks ago, and we were all, oh, cool, it's like Cher's computer in Clueless . And then we promptly forgot about it. But the delightful T.Y. at the Lit Connection was inspired, and she...

Liz Phair Has Five Jobs and One of Them is Novelist

by Sharon Steel | April 07, 2008
Yup. Liz Phair reviewed Dean Wareham's Black Postcards : A Rock & Roll Romance in this Sunday's NYTBR . Among other things, we have learned that her mother named her Elizabeth Clark Phair because she thought it would make a good New Yorker...

The New Yorker reviews Gossip Girl

by Sharon Steel | March 03, 2008
Er, more specifically, JANET MALCOLM has reviewed Gossip Girl , and we're talking about the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar, not the television series by Josh Scwhartz. Oh, we are completely losing our shit over this review . It is three pages...

Word Up Exclusive Author Q&A: Aimee Liu

by Importer | February 27, 2008
Word Up pauses from our usual coverage of literary gossip and socialite authoresses to call your attention to the fact that it's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week . As such, we are quite pleased to present you with an online-only author interview...

"Titles change!"

by Importer | February 22, 2008
David Sedaris: we are fans, we must admit. Not of all of his work, but much of it. We missed the fact that the title of his latest book, set for a June publication date, keeps on changing. Leon Neyfakh at the Observer didn't, and asked Sedaris to...

Lit-Tionary

by Sharon Steel | February 20, 2008
This Independent piece got The Elegant Variation musing about various possible literary genres . It's an amusing list, and the comment-supplied suggestions are great, too.

Monday Round-Up: Spilled Milk

by Sharon Steel | February 04, 2008
James Frey is serious about his come-back, so much so that he's jazzing up his forthcoming novel, Bright Shiny Morning , with jacket art by his friend Richard Prince. He's also thinking of going Ira Glass on us, with a book tour that the New York...

Fine Lines: It's Like Eating Your Favorite Book

by Sharon Steel | February 01, 2008
Okay, we feel badly for calling out Jezebel about the whole bitter thing -- it's not all the time! it's just about certain stuff! and we understand how they feel because excessive shallowness is annoying! -- but anyway, we are kissing their collective...

Literary Links: Unpleasant realities edition

by Sharon Steel | January 31, 2008
Uh oh. Thirteen people in Turkey were arrested for plotting to kill Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk ( My Name is Red ). What a surprise! Oprah's latest Book Club pick is Eckhart Tolle 's self-help tome A New Earth . Congratulations, Eckhart -- please...

Knighted

by Sharon Steel | January 23, 2008
The New York Times has an interesting essay in their Sunday Book Review about how Elie Weisel's Night became a best-seller ... again.

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