Tuesday New Release Day: Lipsyte, Carson, Silver, Hamid, Miller, Oates, Graver

Daniel Woodrell was so busy dodging bill collectors that he almost missed a telegram from an agent interested in his first novel, Under the Bright Lights. He discusses his writing career, the film adaptation of Winter's Bone, and how he's used the same coffee mug since 1974 for The Daily Beast's "How I Write" series.

Out this week: Made for Love by Alissa Nutting; The Reason You're Alive by Matthew Quick; The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins; The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas; Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco; and Who Is Rich? by Matthew Klam. For more on these and other new titles, go read our most recent book preview.

“My friend Kathy was a Mustang Ranch girl in the eighties, had a line on how to bring cocaine into town, and was party girl central and making a lot of money. She was in the center of it in a way that my characters can see but they can’t ever get to. Reno is a beautiful, beat up, and weird town devoted to this false notion of luck. It’s a beautiful place.” Talking with Christian Kiefer.

"Crossover words are a tremendous testament to our awesome ability to shape the language as we use it. To master our fears. To take our terror and use it to build something terrific." - Arika Okrent writes for The Week about irony, slang and the way language changes.

"These are terrific diversions, but their status next to the book is a little ambiguous. Isn't using animation to advertise a book a little like using sculpture to promote poetry?" asks Lindesay Irvine in this article about book trailers in The Guardian.  If you're looking for a diversion, this video short based on César Aira's Ghosts is certainly worth watching.

Two advice classics, Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and Emily Post's Etiquette, have been updated for the era of Facebook and Google Plus.