The Indiana Review is adding archived story excerpts and poems to its website. Here’s a Peter Jay Shippy poem they recommend.
The Indiana Review is Digitizing
“Cultivate Lightness”
What should you do if, horror of horrors, you find yourself appearing as a character in someone else's book? Michelle Huneven shares her experience being fictionalized in an essay for The Paris Review. Her advice? "Don’t read too much into it. Cultivate lightness." Pair with our profile of Huneven, "Not Lost, Just Rearranged."
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Questions for Ms. Heller
Bethanne Patrick of The Book Studio interviews Zoe Heller about her latest novel The Believers.
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From the Ground Up
Recommended Reading: Ann Friedman on Caitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl.
Envy
Robert Birnbaum asked seven indie publishers to say which titles they wish they'd published in 2009. The last sentence of the piece (from Dalkey Archive's Martin Riker) is particularly great.
Color Lines
At Bookforum, Alexander Benaim reads the latest novel by Jess Row, which I wrote about as part of our most recent book preview. The novel poses a charged, intriguing question: what would happen if it were possible to change your race? (It might also be a good time to read the author’s Year in Reading entry along with our own Mark O'Connell's review of the novel at Slate.)
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Read Me an E-Book
Can kids' books on a tablet beat the real thing? A father of two takes a reading test.
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