Out this week: A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay; The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories; and Insomniac Dreams by Vladimir Nabokov. For more on these and other new titles, go read our most recent book preview.
Tuesday New Release Day: Hay; Grove; Nabokov
Raising L.A.’s Literary Profile
Wednesday night at the Hammer Museum, the editors of the new Los Angeles Review of Books explained how their new web-only book review will raise L.A.'s literary profile.
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“Unhappy in Their Own Ways”
This week in book-related infographics: A look at the Russian novelists, "Unhappy in Their Own Ways," from The New York Times.
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Dickinson’s Self-Creation
“Dickinson wasn’t a madwoman, but she was maddened with rage—against a culture that had no place for a woman with her own fiercely independent mind and will.” On Emily Dickinson’s self-creation at Lit Hub. Pair with a piece on Paul Legault’s English-to-English translations of Dickinson’s poems.
NY Approves the Rushdie Rip
Zoë Heller’s takedown of Salman Rushdie in the NYRB may yet ruffle some feathers, but for now it’s nabbed the top spot on New York Magazine’s approval matrix.
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New David Mitchell Cover
David Mitchell’s anticipated novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, now has a cover. It appears rather dreamy and influenced by Japanese art.
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Shadowplay
Did his Nobel Prize win a couple years ago pique your interest in Patrick Modiano? Here's another essay to sate it. In The Paris Review, Alice Kaplan examines his literary project.
The Lost City of Chabon
Michael Chabon teases us with a synopsis of his "wrecked" 1,500-page novel, Fountain City (to be excerpted in a forthcoming issue of McSweeney's).
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Would be really cool if you linked to something like IndieBound instead of Amazon.