Bruce Springsteen’s archive is headed to Monmouth University, which is located in his hometown: Long Branch, New Jersey.
The Boss’s Papers
On Race and Rankine
Recommended reading: Nick Laird writes about Claudia Rankine's National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Citizen: An American Lyric and "A New Way of Writing About Race" for the New York Review of Books.
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Just Like Christmas
Good news for Catch-22 fans: a previously unpublished Joseph Heller story appears in the newest issue of Strand Magazine. (h/t Paris Review)
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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.
A Look Back at the Old Future of Books
At Print Magazine, Buzz Poole looks at The Electric Information Age Book, which chronicles the innovative heyday of book packaging, when the publishers "were the ones breaking down the walls and changing the rules as they went."
Well, She Should Know
“Here is a rare recording of Flannery O’Connor reading an early version of her witty and revealing essay, ‘Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction’”
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