One of the biggest literary releases of the year is out today, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. Read the book’s opening here. Another literary heavy hitter out today is The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst. One of Albanian writer Ismail Kadare’s masterpieces, The Palace of Dreams, is now back in print in English, and Blake Butler’s memoir Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia is now on shelves.
Tuesday New Release Day: Eugenides, Hollinghurst, Kadare, Butler
Comics on the Big-Screen
It takes decades to build up a great superhero, but only one bad movie to tear him down. Den of Geek explores the downside of comic book adaptations.
Secret Machines
Recommended Reading: Cody Delistraty's interview with Kazuo Ishiguro. You could also read our own Lydia Kiesling on the author's new novel The Buried Giant.
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Not a Soirée
At The Guardian, Susanna Rustin interviews the Irish writer Edna O’Brien, whose new anthology of stories, The Love Object, comes out as an e-book this week. Among other things, she compares a writer who works on a book for only one day a week with a parent who leaves a toddler unsupervised: "You can't find it again."
The Future of the Post-Apocalyptic
"Post-apocalyptic books are thriving for a simple reason: The world feels more precariously perched on the lip of the abyss than ever, and facing those fears through fiction helps us deal with it." A look at the future of post-apocalyptic fiction from NPR, with a mention of our own Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven.
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Line / Break
The
nightmare
of formatting gone awry: are e-readers bad for poetry?
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