A pair of books featured in our Great 2013 Book Preview hit shelves today: Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout’s fourth novel, The Burgess Boys, as well as Benjamin Lytal’s A Map of Tulsa.
Tuesday New Release Day: Strout, Lytal
As the Cock Crows
It's that time of year again – our good friends at The Morning News are back with their annual epic, the Tournament of Books! Head over to TMN now to read round 1, which pits award season favorite Lincoln in the Bardo against Samantha Schweblin's Fever Dream (and read our own review of George Saunders's much-lauded novel here).
Feel the Tingle?
Recommended Reading: On Chuck Tingle, self-published writer of gay erotica, who beat the notorious Sad Puppies at their own game: "Question: If you could pick a single writer to make an effective, compassionate statement about identity politics to a divided literary community, who would you pick? Would it be a schizophrenic, autistic person who’d authored an e-book called Space Raptor Butt Invasion?"
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Oh Boris
At the LRB, Jonathan Coe reviews The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, a book that delves into the satirical gold mine that is the Mayor of London.
Poolside Romance
Recommended Reading: Roxane Gay's short story about a summer romance, "The Year I Learned Everything," at Rookie. "He’s the best-looking of the bunch so you can imagine how ugly his friends are."
A Bar Bet, Settled
Our friends at More Intelligent Life tot up the most common titles found on New York's street-corner book stalls.
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“But I can tell you about my kitchen.”
At The Nervous Breakdown, Antonya Nelson interviews herself. She reveals why she writes stories, and describes her new novel, Bound, due out this fall.
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You can file me under Ishmael.
Have you ever wanted to convert a book into a patent application? Well now you can.
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