Recommended Reading: Jami Attenberg on lists and literary culture. (h/t Kyle Chayka)
“You should not have to care”
Zombified
Recommended Reading: Michael Christie on Aleksandar Hemon’s The Making of Zombie Wars. You could also read Hemon’s Year in Reading entry.
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NY Fashion Week and the Working Writer
When high fashion and the life of a working writer combine: on Jessica Francis Kane's New York Fashion Week debut.
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Don’t Assume
"I asked myself - why don’t I state the race of my characters? And am I doing something wrong by not explicitly including a diverse cast of characters? Could I be doing something better? The short answer is yes." An argument in favor of race bent fanfiction and resisting assumedly white characters from The Missouri Review blog.
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1Q84 Uncovered
The cover for Haruki Murakami's long-awaited 1Q84 has been unveiled. The book is due out in October.
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New McEwan on the Way
Here's another book that will be in our July "Most Anticipated Books" round up: Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan, said to be set in 1972 and follow a female spy who is a compulsive reader of novels.
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In Response to Rejections
At the Electric Literature blog, Judson Merrill responds to his many rejection letters: “If you were that excited about my submission, I’m concerned you may have read it with unfair expectations... I’ve reattached my submission under the new title ‘Eight Pages of Tripe’...”
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