TMO looks at Reif Larsen’s ‘The selected works of T.S.Spivet - a novel’
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Terry Eagleton on Hitchens, Amis & McEwan, the liberal literati http://bit.ly/bAWqTy (via @readysteadybook) #
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The ten finalists for the 3% translated book award - http://bit.ly/aTjcvt #
The Elegant Variation’s summer of debuts - http://bit.ly/9xhg76 #
New post up at the TMO book blog - ‘The House of the Mosque’ by Kader Abdolah http://bit.ly/cjwXbi #
Tim Parks on the ‘dull new global novel’ http://bit.ly/8X92EC #
King Lear, madness and my grandmother http://bit.ly/bFuaVn #
Taking Martin [...]
‘Don’t be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov’ - Geoff Dyer http://bit.ly/d51hP4 #
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TMO review of Anne Enright’s ‘The wig my father wore’ - http://bit.ly/bbFXiL #
rt @maudnewton Recordings of F. Scott Fitzgerald reading Shakespeare: http://bit.ly/cdBBpF (via @Condalmo) #
Book Fox on the predictive power of book reviews http://bit.ly/bYJaAi #
Lizzy Siddal is accepting questions for a Kader Abdolah interview, author of ‘House of the Mosque’ http://bit.ly/aLPoJZ #
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#Amis “But it was just the empty Echo of repetition, of a book rewritten; from his father still only silence” http://bit.ly/bi8Cbi #
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‘Sleeping with John Updike’ - a short story by Julian Barnes http://bit.ly/7v5Z3b #
BBC interview with ‘House of the Mosque’ author Kader Abdolah http://bit.ly/8ICtGQ #
50 Penguin authors were asked what their favourite book was, and four of them chose titles by… http://is.gd/6ZkhP RT @TheOrwellPrize #
“often murders happen in the kitchen in the morning. And I’m not [...]
Edgar Allen Poe’s philosophy of furniture (via biblioklept and Roberto Bolaño http://bit.ly/6S5Vwr #
Contrary to the expectations of some, the internet has boosted the written word - http://bit.ly/75spSe #
A nice summary! RT @thecreativepenn The Future of Publishing: A Round Up from Experts http://short.to/13t1v via @tomcolvin RT @BiblioGeek #
Evan Maloney remembers McCabe’s ‘The Butcher Boy’, while Kelman’s [...]
Not since Snow White have mirrors been so vocal - the new Martin Amis novel ‘The Pregnant Widow’ http://bit.ly/4mHWua #
‘So who is Perkus Tooth anyway?’ - Jonathan Lethem answers http://bit.ly/7bAvO1 #
Good interview with David Vann, over @writerspet http://bit.ly/4V4uBN #
B.R.Myers is not impressed by the ’strangled work-driven ways’ of E.Annie Proulx http://bit.ly/6iWtg4 #
Orhan Pamuk in conversation [...]
About to start ‘House of the Mosque’ by Kader Abdolah. thanks @canongatebooks http://bit.ly/4yg5S8 #
Finished Lauren Grodstein’s ‘A Friend of the Family’ - but can’t get it out of my head. A very fine novel. http://bit.ly/8UYJm0 #
Colm Toibin Wins Costa Novel of 2009 for ‘Brooklyn’
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First novel read this year ‘ The Missing Head [...]
I don’t want to live in her world, but suspect that in fact I do. This is what makes her a great writer. http://bit.ly/5g7V7A #
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Martin Amis interview - http://bit.ly/5CAjDb #
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A French university brings Stendhal’s manuscripts into the digital age. -IC http://bit.ly/6j34pf RT @bookbench #
Tales in a time of turmoil - the Irish Times books of 2009 list http://bit.ly/78l1Wq #
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Damn - would love to see Geoff Dyer and Talvin Singh tomorrow. If you’re in London check it out: http://bit.ly/1tBn3V #
How Thomas Hardy Expressed His Doubt - http://bit.ly/8PEmwM #
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Chanced upon an interesting review of Anne Enright’s ‘The Gathering’ http://bit.ly/ZyJvW #
Hearing good things about David Vann’s ‘Legend of a suicide’ http://bit.ly/215OEP #
So it turns out that @wuming6 is not, in fact, Wu Ming - see: http://bit.ly/D7AED Cheeky! RT @VersoBooksUK #
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Stumbled upon a great interview with @mj_hyland over at vulpes libris http://bit.ly/Qoks6 #
Julian Barnes on Guy de Maupassant (in the LRB) http://bit.ly/deapz #
rt @serpentstail giving away 5 copies of “The Sexual Life of Catherine M” & “Jealousy” once they reach 500 followers… RT to enter #
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Julian Barnes on John Updikes Rabbit Quartet http://ow.ly/vasr Now re-published by Everyman http://ow.ly/vasT RT @blhupdates #
Amos Oz’s ‘Rhyming Life and death’ reviewed as part of Canongate’s literature world tour - http://bit.ly/2FyOob #
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New Post on The Death of Bunny Munroe - Nick Cave | Is there a book in this blog? http://bit.ly/XayHp #
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Not sure what to make of Tim Davys’ Amberville, but I’m enjoying it a lot http://bit.ly/AnPKd #
Both #6 and #7 deserve their places in The Millions’ countdown Millennium list: http://www.themillions.com/ RT @harmlessfraud #
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after a thumbs up from @harmlessfraud, I’m going to read ‘Under the Volcano’ by Malcolm Lowry #
Nick Cave talks to the Guardian about ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’ http://bit.ly/wnUND #
From the TMO archives - John Banville and the reigning spirit of the novel, thanatos http://bit.ly/oOBUy #
Mark Sarvas writes about E. Annie Proulx’s ‘The [...]
Man Booker shortlist is announced http://bit.ly/1fNsw #
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