Exclusive exxcerpt from the new Benjamin Black (Banville novel) Elegy for April – http://bit.ly/avQn6E # Whatever people say I am, Alan Sillitoe 1928-2010: http://is.gd/bHvAf RT @3ammagazine # Lionel Shriver – America's best writer? http://bit.ly/dpFC5n # You can read Bulbjerg, a short story by Naja Marie Aidt, at the Pen World Voices festival site http://bit.ly/cbM3ct # […]
Orange Prize shortlist announced http://bit.ly/bq2qQT # looking for the left-wing in Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy http://bit.ly/cvzvF3 # (on Beckett) "while all around him hacks and inattentive culture-vultures chatter about 'the absurd' " http://bit.ly/b7SJzB # Powered by Twitter Tools.
In case you missed it – The New Yorker has published Bolaño's The Prefiguration of Lalo Cura http://bit.ly/d3l79K # Novelist Peter Murphy hits nail on head in panel discussion about Ian McEwan's Solar http://bit.ly/cMf7PH # Michael Weingrad ponders why there is no Jewish Narnia – http://bit.ly/biABtZ # Powered by Twitter Tools.
"How the Paperback Novel Changed Popular Literature" http://bit.ly/blsOSk Smithsonian Mag on #writing #reading #publishing RT @dbschlosser # TMO Review of Louise Welsh's Naming the Bones http://bit.ly/ckxEd7 # Voting is open for the best author blogs, over at completely novel @authorblogs http://bit.ly/c2C3Nh # Powered by Twitter Tools.
The more I think back on Louise Welsh’s latest novel, Naming the Bones, which I finished just over two weeks ago, the more quietly impressed I am by it. And if that seems like damning with faint praise, nothing could be further from the truth. While the novel has a narrative arc that brings its […]
Philip Pullman talking about 'enhanced editions' and the future of publishing http://bit.ly/dk2guG # Doubt in the novel – Brian Moore's Cold Heaven http://bit.ly/9JW5Ct # Orhan Pamuk reads Nabokov's My Russian Education http://bit.ly/bSLv1B # Margaret Atwood on how she was sucked into the Twittersphere like Alice down the rabbit hole http://bit.ly/agzWEd RT @SanSip in reply to […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]