Who is Samantha Shannon, and why should you care about her? Well, for starters, she’s twenty-one years old, her debut novel The Bone Season is coming out next week, and her publisher suspects she may be the next J.K. Rowling.
Bright Young Thing
DFW, ctd.
On Friday, the Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin opened up its holdings of The Pale King, DFW’s last novel (which our own Garth Risk Hallberg reviewed for New York Magazine). At Page-Turner, D.T. Max picks through the new papers.
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Booksellers React to Borders’ Bankruptcy
Half of all restaurants that open close," WORD owner Christine Onorati says. On the other hand, Red Lemonade publisher Richard Nash hopes former Borders employees can find ways to continue "operating as the matchmakers of the book ecosystem."
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Coming to a theater near Tokyo
First it was Pebble Beach, and now they want our movies. After years of bad Hollywood remakes of good Japanese movies, turnabout is fair play.
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In the End, Everything Turns Out / Right”
Recommended Reading: "An Old Man, Full of Days" by Matthew Minicucci.
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Amazon’s Top Book Lists
Amazon has churned out a number of top books lists this year. We've already mentioned the Editors' Top 100 Books, but there's also the Customers' Top 100 Books, the Top 10 Literature and Fiction, the Top 10 Cookbooks, and the Top 10 Science Books.
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Crystallized Political Commitments
"Elizabeth Hardwick, a formidable feminist in a different key, declared, 'I don’t know what happened. She got swept too far. She deliberately made herself ugly and wrote those extreme and ridiculous poems.'” On the (difficult) art and activism of Adrienne Rich.