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YA Hotness (in honor of Sharon)

by Sharon Steel | June 24, 2008
What better way to bid a bloggy farewell to Sharon than to address a few of her favorite things -- hot publishing deals , hot young New Yorkers , and YA fiction ? To those ends, we contacted our (best) friend and author Lauren Oliver (indeed, she's...

Q&A with Rose Metal Press founders

by Importer | June 11, 2008
In this week's Portland Phoenix, I review the latest offering from Boston-based Rose Metal Press : A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: four chapbooks of short short fiction by four women , by Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia...

Q&A with Rose Metal Press founders

by Sharon Steel | June 11, 2008
In this week's Portland Phoenix, I review the latest offering from Boston-based Rose Metal Press : A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: four chapbooks of short short fiction by four women , by Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia...

The Ax and Pen of a Literary Critic

by Sharon Steel | April 28, 2008
We know that the point of this New York Times Sunday Styles piece on N+1 editor and author Keith Gessen wasn't supposed to be about the fact that he is obsessed with checking his Amazon.com ranking. Though it's nice to know that even good-looking...

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...

365 Days, 365 Ways

by Sharon Steel | April 01, 2008
A Year of Magical Thinking, illustration via the Observer Sorry for the Observer -centric coverage of late, but Leon Neyfakh's piece in this week's Observer -- about what he calls the "' how I turned my life around in one year ' mini...

All the Sad Young Literary Hotties

by Sharon Steel | March 27, 2008
Keith Gessen: Author, broad-shouldered man. The Observer is really doing some excellent shoe-leather reporting on sub-cultures these days. Last week's awkward musing on Urbane Tomboys flummoxed us (aren't these girls just hipsters who wear boy...

Will White People Buy Stuff White People Like, the Book?

by Sharon Steel | March 21, 2008
Memed Out Have you read Stuff White People Like ? It's a very funny blog. We hope it will be a very, very, very funny book. Actually, it will probably have to be the funniest book in the entire fucking world to sell enough copies to justify the alleged...

E-Books: Ew

by Sharon Steel | March 20, 2008
We love the Interweb! (Except when it tries to break our blog.) But you know what we don't love? E-books. E-books are gross. It's like, we and nearly everyone else we know with day jobs spend hours upon hours staring at a screen and reading the...

Liars, Promotions, and Profiles!

by Sharon Steel | March 04, 2008
Sloane Crosley: The new Dorothy Parker, some say -- or just our new Imaginary Friend Kelefa Sanneh, our favorite New York Times pop music critic, is going to be a staff writer at The New Yorker ! Now he and the S.F.J. can totally duke it out over the...

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...

Marisha Pessl: Fuck-Me Boots, Round Deux?

by Sharon Steel | February 27, 2008
It's deal day for Publisher's Lunch Weekly . Fresh out of the inbox: General/Other Marisha Pessl's NIGHT FILM, a psychological thriller about obsession, family loyalty and ambition set in raw contemporary Manhattan, moving to Kate Medina at...

F.S.G's Moving Day: "The money went into the books, not painting the walls."

by Importer | February 25, 2008
The intimidating publisher of serious and lovely books, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux , is moving to a new HQ. Editors and publicists have been toiling away without hot water in the ladies' bathroom sinks! Rebecca Mead explains in her "Talk of...

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.

Swag Off

by Sharon Steel | February 01, 2008
This Thursday Styles piece about beauty bloggers and swag is basically just repackages a million-year old story about beauty editors (or fashion editors, or whatever kind of editor) and the swag that they're inundated with on a regular basis. What's...

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