September 2011
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Tomorrow is National Punctuation Day ... Do You... →
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Jhumpa Lahiri Shares a Bit of Her New Novel →
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“Jhumpa Lahiri was honored at the Brooklyn Book Festival this week, receiving the annual “BoBi” Award which is given to a writer whose body of work exemplifies the spirit of the borough. At the festival, Lahiri — who has lived in Brooklyn for 11 years — sat on a panel about the award and read from her coming novel…”
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“A baseball team is a lot like a whaling ship: in each case, a group of men who...”
– Paris Review – Chad Harbach on ‘The Art of Fielding’, Robyn Creswell
Don’t worry, I will keep updating you on the relationship between The Art of Fielding and Moby-Dick.
(via housingworksbookstore)
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Errol Morris Looks For The Truth Outside... →
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Yelping with Cormac: Dolores Park →
housingworksbookstore:
Yes yes yes yes: San Francisco-based Yelp reviews in the style of Cormac McCarthy. Discovered via Book Bench.
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Mission - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | A dusty home at the end of a road, NM
Three stars
He sat down next to the others. Studiously ragtag bohemians carefully squandering the waking hours. Pieces of a conversation that when added...
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The Book Collection That Devoured My Life →
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Translating Murakami: A Conversation with Jay... →
vintageanchor:
Click here to listen to the New Yorker’s interview with Haruki Murakami’s longtime translator Jay Rubin about how he became a Murakami fan and translator, the reception in Japan of Murakami’s latest novel, “1Q84,” and why Rubin doesn’t recommend reading literature in translation…
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