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• Kids Campaign to Keep Local Bookstore Open

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  B. Dalton is the only bookstore in Laredo, Texas (pop. 230,000)... and its scheduled to close in a couple weeks as part of owner Barnes & Noble shuts down the entire chain. Kids in town are having none of it. They have joined with other residents and community leaders to persuade Barnes & Noble to save the ...
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• Gaza Footnotes

  
  Laila Lalami — Authority: 116
  Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of Israel’s air-, land- and sea-invasion of Gaza, which resulted in the loss of more than 1,400 lives. In Sunday’s Los Angeles Times , David Ulin reviews Joe Sacco’s long-awaited new book, Footnotes in Gaza , which is about a nearly forgotten massacre in in Rafah ...
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• Speaking: Mary McCarthy

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  I never have. I never have, I’ve never even thought of it. That is, I’ve never thought of writing a developmental novel in which a self of some kind is discovered or is made, is forged, as they say. No. I suppose in a sense I don’t know any more today than I did in 1941 about what my identity is. But I’ve ...
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• POEM: A Vision of Now

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  A Vision of Now By Hayden Carruth Here we are, my dears, the autumn of twenty-o-five. And it’s very strange. The sultry summer lingers Into October; the foliage that by now was always Bright is drab and withered; and we are far Too dry, except where hurricanes rage and floods Carry off our houses. Is this ...
  3 days ago

• The East, the West, and Pamuk

  
  Laila Lalami — Authority: 116
  In the most recent issue of the London Review of Books , Adam Shatz reviews Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, The Museum of Innocence , providing a more skeptical, cool-headed view of Pamuk’s work than what we’ve been accustomed to so far. Here is the opening paragraph: Who could resist the charms, or doubt the ...
  5 days ago

• Author Interview: Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant

  
  The Literary Life — Authority: 128
  Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant are co-authors of several books including Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made which has sold 800,000 copies to date.  A few days ago they provided BookSwim with a guest post with an interesting perspective on the most recent Publisher’s Weekly cover which was extremely ...
  6 days ago

• Quick Hit: Morbid Charles Dickens

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  Drawing from the new " biography of a writer as writer" from Yale University Press, Adam Thirwells essay on Charles Dickens in The New Republic turns on the dark dimensions of the author who was by turns a mimic, a moralizer, a magician, a manic, and a mope.
  1 week ago

• Swept Away By Storytellers

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  As this year is drawing to a close, as I tuck in at my parents house in a little town on Lake Michigan, as it snows whitely on the farms and dunes, as the buzz of my to-do list starts finally, finally to quiet, I find myself swept away by strong storytellers. Im reading William Styron (for the first time) and ...
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• POEM: A Blasphemy

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  A Blasphemy By Maurice Manning You wouldnt have believed it, how the man, a little touched perhaps, set his hands together and prayed for happiness, yet not his own; he meant his people, by which he meant not people really, but trees and cows, the dirty horses, dogs, the fox who lived at the back of ...
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• Speaking: Marilynne Robinson

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  I’ve always been almost offended by the idea of mysticism, because itseems as if it diminishes what we know by every means that gives usaccess to it – it diminishes the simple spectacle of what we are andwhere we are, the complex spectacle, I should probably have said. Ithink probably one of the important things ...
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• Speaking: Adrienne Rich

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  Still, as a poet, I choose to sieve up old, sunken words, heave them, dripping with silt, turn them over, and bring them into the air of the present. Where every public decision has to be justified in the scales of corporate profits, poetry unsettles these apparently self-evident propositions--not through ideology, ...
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• In Auggie’s Smoke Shop

  
  Laila Lalami — Authority: 116
  The Guardian has published a gallery of twelve beautiful pictures , which accompany a new edition of Paul Auster’s famed “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story.” The story first appeared in the New York Times in 1990, and has been reprinted many times since. You can listen to Paul Auster read it on NPR . And of ...
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• BOOK REVIEW: After Reading Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
    Ill miss reading Moby-Dick for the first time. Since June, Herman Melvilles masterpiece has been my constant companion. I was in no rush. I read it in sips, I read it in gulps. I took a break from it and listened to the music it inspired, from Led Zeppelin to Laurie Anderson to Thomas Chapin. I paused to ...
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• Get Your Collagist Right Here

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  The December issue of The Collagist is up and out and looking great. My video book review takes on All Fall Down , by Mary Caponegro (Coffee House Press) --- a collection of stories that incited strong and mixed feelings.
  2 weeks ago

• Round-Up: Literary Indulgences

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  Maud Hart Lovelaces Betsy-Tacy books are both awesome and relevant to todays girls, says The Washington Times . Mati Unts Brecht at Night is one of the " Best of 2009: Booksellers Choice " over at the Barnes & Noble Review. I reviewed Unts fabulous novel at The Collagist . Laura Miller picks out her f ...
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• Choose Books:The Top Ten Magazine Gift Subscriptions

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked.Its because there are few things more fun than giving someone a bookthey fall in love with; it lasts longer and matters more than, say,necklaces or sweaters, while rarely being more than about fifteendollars. Whats more, your purposeful choice of ...
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• Choose Books: Reluctantly Alice

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked.Its because there are few things more fun than giving someone a bookthey fall in love with; it lasts longer and matters more than, say,necklaces or sweaters, while rarely being more than about fifteendollars. Whats more, your purposeful choice of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chris Thurman Examines the Aesthetics of Joburg

  
  UKZN Press — Authority: 111
  The following article on “the Johannesburg aesthetic” by Chris Thurman, author of Guy Butler: Reassessing a South African Literary Life , first appeared in The Weekender : There are many facets to the Joburg aesthetic. There’s the ‘minedumps and highways’ cliché that out-of-towners hold so dear when ...
  2 weeks ago

• Books of The Times: Bookish Cowboy Heads Off to the Corral

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
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• Quick Hit: Literature and Online Publishing

  
  Isak — Authority: 474
  American Short Fiction is asking folks what online publishing means to them. Matt Bell, a writer who has grown out of the world of digital literature, offers a beautiful and interesting response .
  2 weeks ago

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