- Debut short story writer Matthew Vollmer gets some love.
- For those left baffled by descriptions of “the Purdie shuffle” in last week’s New Yorker and New York Times, the mighty Bernard “Pretty” Purdie offers a demonstration.
- At the International Edible Book Festival, you can chase down your Remembrance of Things Pasta with some Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Bread (via The Book Bench)
- Despite (or because of?) its compassionate ecumenicalism, Sana Krasikov’s One More Year wins the Jewish Book Council’s Sami Rohr Prize.
- A 1979 cover letter from then-unknown Kazuo Ishiguro, re: the story “Getting Poisoned.” Bonus features: Hemingwavian brevity, grease stains.
- The New York Times Magazine’s editor ponders the fate of long-form journalism…
- …while Vanity Fair questions the Times’ relentless interactivity.
- Stephen King, once thought to be considering retirement, has been as prolific as ever, now announcing the November publication of a 1,120-page novel, Under the Dome, about a town that has been sealed off by an invisible force field.
- The Complete Review turns 10!
- 30 Poets/30 Days: a celebration of children’s poetry
- “Notes and Errata” on D. T. Max’s profile of David Foster Wallace “The Unfinished.” (via kottke)
- Kassia Krozser says “Enough With The Smell of Books, Okay?” about the olfactory argument in the ebooks debate.
- William Zinsser on writing On Writing Well and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years.
- Google poses a literary stumper.
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