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From the book I'm reading right now: "My mother's output, starred and pseudonymous, appeared regularly in one of those little, irregular periodicals so limited in readership that they might be called incestuous. Subscription was by invitation only, and contributors would go into a rage over a misplaced comma and brood for days if their poems were understood."

Last week, I pointed readers to an article about Michael Faber’s latest book and his decision to quit writing fiction. Now, in the Times Book Review, Marcel Theroux sizes up the novel, writing that “the reader is drawn through the book effortlessly, by the combination of incidental strangeness and the suspenseful handling of plot.”

"What does it mean to be rich in a poor country? Or to possess power that you don’t want? Why have the 'educated classes' in India and Pakistan abdicated their social responsibilities?" Parul Sehgal reviews Aatish Taseer's Noon for The New York Times.

The media world is abuzz about a former Harper's Bazaar intern suing parent company Hearst for allegedly violating labor laws for not paying her (With reactions ranging from "She'll never work in this town again." to "Good for her. It's about time!"). At least she didn't get sucked into HuffPo's aggregation turbine.