Stephen King’s latest, Under the Dome, is out today. It’s 1,100 pages and is being compared to The Stand. Meanwhile, Generation A by Douglas Coupland is also hitting shelves. It’s a sequel to Coupland’s famous, influential debut, Generation X. Also out last week was Jonathan Safran Foer’s treatise on vegetarianism, Eating Animals, which picked up a mixed review in the New Yorker.
New Releases: Foer, Coupland, King
The Thing About Author Interviews
“Most writers … don’t ask questions of a journalist,” writes How to Read a Novelist author John Freeman. But what of those that do? Over the course of a fifteen year career, Freeman has found that “what the novelists asked of me told me [a great deal] about them,” and that a big problem with the standard format for author interviews, after all, is that “the conventions of the interview deprive us of one thing a novelist does quite a bit, which is ask questions.” (Bonus: Freeman will be in conversation with Jennifer Egan Thursday night at McNally Jackson.)
Was Milton a Bard of Smut?
An Oxford lecturer finds a “filthy, innuendo-laden… smutty… coarse, and frankly misogynistic” poem supposedly by John Milton – a far cry from the lofty Christian sentiments of Paradise Lost.
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You can call off the search, Millions readers–we have been given the year-end list to end all year-end lists. The good people over at The Literary Hub spent countless hours poring over social media accounts to bring you the most important “best of” you’ll see all year, The Biggest Cuties in Publishing.
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CJ Hauser on Gothic Literature’s Life Lessons
How can you avoid the second Mrs. de Winter's fate? By allowing the past and present to coexist.
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Sarah Gerard on Revisiting Unfinished Work
Sarah Gerard offers a suggestion for a small act of creation that can set your mind in order during moments of turmoil.
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