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• Trip’s morning reading: More Medicaid money could be coming to NM

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 589
  Help to states might be on the way. Tucked within the U.S. House’s version of health reform legislation last week is a $23.5 billion pot of money meant for states to pay for six more months of extra Medicaid funding , The Washington Post reports. State officials across the land are crossing their fingers hoping ...
  15 hours ago

• Paul Auster: Why Roth is wrong about the novel

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 133
  Paul Auster speaks out to The Big Think , and "strenuously" disagrees with Philip Roths assertion that the novel is a dying art-form, fading from public relevance. He also speculates on the future of internet literature.  Full interview with Auster available here . (via Norton Fiction .) More on A Piece of ...
  17 hours ago

• Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel

  
  The Casual Optimist — Authority: 121
  “ Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.” Isn’t this great? A full interview with Paul Auster is at Big Think . (via Norton Fiction on Twitter)
  17 hours ago

• Anonymous Call Girl Author Belle de Jour Outed as "Slutty Scientist" Costume Incarnate [Revelations]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Showtimes Secret Diary of a Call Girl was based on a series of bestselling books by anonymous prostitute Belle de Jour . How hot is this? Turns out shes a well-regarded British scientist, Dr. Brooke Magnanti . She came out last night. The actual identity of Belle de Jour was unknown to even her agent up until ...
  1 day ago

• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 133
  (Image from The Folio Society : Paul Austers New York Trilogy ) This week introduces Disjecta , a new weekly feature of  A Piece of Monologue . It aims to digest news across philosophy and the arts into manageable bitesize portions. And yes, this format is a blatant steal from 3:AM Magazine s superb ...
  1 day ago

• Diff’rent Strokes

  
  shigekuni. — Authority: 130
  As soon as you finish Paul Auster’s “Invisible” you want to read it again. (…) You want to reread “Invisible” because it moves quickly, easily, somehow sinuously, and you worry that there were good parts that you read right past, insights that you missed. The prose is contemporary American writing at its ...
  2 days ago

• Ghostly: Paul Auster’s “Invisible”

  
  shigekuni. — Authority: 130
  Auster, Paul (2009), Invisible, Henry HoltISBN 978-0-8050-9080-2It’s not as awful as I thought it would be. Paul Auster’s most recent novel, Invisible, frequently billed as a return to form, is, indeed, much better than what I read of his recent fare, especially when compared to his dismal Brooklyn Follies. This ...
  1 week ago

• one in two

  
  a mesa de luz — Authority: 139
  "I shook his hand for the first time in the spring of 1967. I was a second-year student at Columbia then, a know-nothing boy with an appetite for books and a belief (or delusion) that one day I would become good enough to call myself a poet, and because I read poetry, I had already met his namesake in Dantes hell, a ...
  1 week ago

• Paul Auster 2009 portrait for his new book Invisible

  
  David Shankbone — Authority: 511
  Tonight Paul Auster, as a I type this post, only an hour after that photograph was taken, is speaking before a large group of people on the fourth floor of Barnes & Noble Union Square, the must-stop for anyone who has written something worth knowing about. The choice this evening was Invisible , and for me the ...
  1 week ago

• Poems by Liu Xiaobo, translated by Jeffrey Yang, read by Paul Auster

  
  PEN America — Authority: 111
  I’ve mentioned Liu Xiaobo before. The renowned literary critic, writer, and political activist was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 1989 when he decided to return to China to support the pro-democracy movement. He staged a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square and led calls for a broad-based, ...
  1 week ago

• B&N and Borders November Events (Paul Auster, KRS One, Jonathan Safran Foer, Orhan Pamuk)

  
  Bumpershine.com — Authority: 434
    In anticipation of the holidays, big time book readings are starting to slow down a little at our local area chains, but there are still a few good things this month. Here’s a list of November B&N and Borders events that I thought were interesting for one reason or another: November 2009 Barnes & ...
  1 week ago

• Review: Act of God

  
  Row Three — Authority: 548
  B ack in the late 1970s as a young lad, one of my favourite summer past-times was sitting with the family on the stoop of our small condominium townhouse during those wild and crazy summer storms. Watching the lightning, feeling the thunder and daring friends and siblings to run out (prancing like fools) into the ...
  1 week ago

• Invisible – Paul Auster

  
  BookOffers.com.au — Authority: 147
  In Invisible One of America’s greatest novelists Pual Auster dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date. Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring ...
  1 week ago

• Paul Auster: Invisible

  
  New Hampshire Public Radio — Authority: 554
  Paul Auster takes on serious taboos his new genre-defying novel Invisible .
  2 weeks ago

• Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 109
  Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story  by Paul Auster is so short that it feels like something of a cheat including it on this list at all. In fact, unless I keep this review relatively short it runs the risk of being longer than the book itself. Well, not quite, but you get the idea! I’ve read a fair bit of Paul ...
  2 weeks ago

• Links: There’s a Fire

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 523
  What does it take to make a debut novel successful? The Austin American-Statesman has a tick-tock on John Pipkin ’s Woodsburner , from writing to editing to publication to indie-bookstore hit. James Salter looks back on his career. Robert Olen Butler has written nine screenplays in the past twelve ...
  2 weeks ago

• Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category (2004)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 425
  SOUNDTRACK : ONE RING ZERO-As Smart as We Are (2004). I had this CD sitting around my house for about 4 years.  I had received it as a promo disc from Soft Skull Press (along with several other books on CD) and I just never put it on.  Then one day I was going through all these promos to see if any were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Interview: Paul Auster

  
  Book Case — Authority: 418
  The world of the novels of Paul Auster or Austerland as Erica Wagner writing in The Times calls it, is a strange one, “a place of strange rich coincidences where objects assume talismanic significance.” With a new novel Invisible out this week in the UK, described by Donald Morrison in the FT as one in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Timbuktu by Paul Auster

  
  readingrec — Authority: 99
  Timbuktu by Paul Auster is an interesting book to pick up if youre looking for something interesting to read. This point of view story follows a dog and homelessness in a unique voice that isnt seen often in the literary or cinema world. Here is a review of the book Timbuktu by Paul Auster from amazon online : ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to write a really good author bio, part IV: resisting the temptation to be terse, or, yet another reason to admire Amy Tan. Oh, and you might want to steer clear of those carnivorous toads.

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 119
  For the last couple of posts, I’ve been encouraging you — yes, YOU, you fabulous writer — to mine your background for intrigue-producing tidbits for your author bio. Not for its own sake, mind you: the creation of a lengthy list of everything about you that either: 1. Renders you the best possible ...
  4 weeks ago

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