The TMO Litblog
The TMO litblog is a collection of short posts, reviews, and tweets dedicated to literary fiction and book news.
Monday, March 29th, 2010
In a TMO interview with Australian novelist Tim Winton, the question of faith and doubt came up, and more specifically the suitability of different literary formats to deal with them. “TMO:How much room in a novel is there for the unexplained, and the unexplainable? Tim Winton: I think there’s plenty of room. For hinting at […]
Tags: brian moore, irish authors, irish novels, narrative voices
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Louise Welsh talks to RTE radio about her new novel 'naming the bones' http://bit.ly/9thusP # The Composite Artist – essay by Salman Rushdie in Laphams Quarterly http://bit.ly/cM4cZL # It's really about time we got around to reading Adam Thirlwell, based on this review at biblioklept http://bit.ly/cevDoP # Great audio interview with Jonathan Dunne, translator of […]
Tags: literary tweets
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
‘I’m not a plumber, I’m not a cross-dresser (though I have been tempted)’ TMO reviews Harry Revised http://bit.ly/bUmip1 # Novelist William wall looks at Ireland through the prism of Dickens’ Hard Times http://bit.ly/cYc4Gk # Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist announced http://bit.ly/9GXVCO # Biblioklept Interviews Melville House’s Dennis Johnson http://bit.ly/bz8h7g # Is literary fiction afraid to […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
It is a typical Harry Rent moment. The protagonist of Mark Sarvas‘s well crafted novel Harry Revised is trapped – almost Bloom like – by indecision, in a bookshop where his task seems relatively simple: to buy the novel that will be his reference book for a much needed re-birth, Dumas’ The Count of Monte […]
Tags: american authors
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
TMO looks at Reif Larsen’s ‘The selected works of T.S.Spivet – a novel’ http://bit.ly/aNAEDs # Terry Eagleton on Hitchens, Amis & McEwan, the liberal literati http://bit.ly/bAWqTy (via @readysteadybook) # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Imagine a 12 year old genius living on a ranch in Montana. He is a scientist and makes maps of everything from entymology to how to shake hands with God. As you might expect, he is, therefore, predictably weird and socially dysfunctional. Keeping his maps in rigorously colour-coded notebooks, Tecumseh Sparrow (yes this kid is […]
Tags: american authors, narrative voices
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
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 […]
Tags: literary tweets
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
‘Don’t be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov’ – Geoff Dyer http://bit.ly/d51hP4 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
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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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Coming off the back of reading more than my fair share of European crime-fiction (culminating with Stieg Larsson’s posthumuous sales-phenomenon The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) – a genre where plot, reasonably enough, is tight and pragmatic, where the reader must above all else understand what’s happening – it was a palate-cleansing delight to dive […]
Tags: irish authors
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