This Bright River author Patrick Somerville visited the Lakemoor Gun Show with our own Emily St. John Mandel, and then wrote about the experience for GQ.
Two Tickets to the Gun Show. Literally.
The Joy of Work
Recommended: Catie Disabato on day jobs.
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The Literary Rumor Mill
From Flavorwire, a look at fascinating literary rumors, from Mark Twain's premature death to Stephen King's supposed blindness.
Tuesday New Release Day: Wright, Santoro, Black
Lawrence Wright's exposé of Scientology, Going Clear, is out today. Also out are The Boy by Lara Santoro and debut novel The Drowning House by Elizabeth Black. Our recently published Most Anticipated books of 2013 has much more about what's still to come this year.
Tuesday New Release Day: Hassman, Taylor, Nooteboom, Powell
New this week: Tupelo Hassman's debut Girlchild, a pair of novels -- Angel and A Game of Hide and Seek -- by Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress) from NYRB Classics featuring introductions by Hilary Mantel and Caleb Crain, Self-Portrait of an Other, prose poems by Cees Nooteboom, and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, a new poetry collection from D.A. Powell.
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Part 3 of Murakami’s 1Q84 coming soon in Japan
Part Three of Haruki Murakami's massive new novel 1Q84 will be released in April. The novel is expected to be released in English by Random House in Fall 2011. Check out our previous reporting on Murakami's latest here.
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Monsters and Wild Things
At the Oxford University Press blog, Professor Stephen T. Asma considers the place of Where The Wild Things Are in our culture's larger obsession with monsters (zombies, wolfmen, vampires, etc.).
Woot Twilight Parody
Today only at Woot, a Stephenie Meyer parody qua flashlight advert: “I was just watching you sleep. Isn’t that dark and brooding and romantic?” Edward brooded darkly.
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