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Finally, I met Richard Nash of Soft Skull.
John Fox of BookFox, who contributed a nice review of Murakami’s After Dark a few issues ago.
Eric Lorberer, Rain Taxi‘s tireless editor, had a booth for the first time at BEA.
You’ll recognize Callie (left) from Counterbalance and Carolyn from Pinky’s Paperhaus.
And there I am. As you can tell, I’ve either just finished talking to the Scientologists (oh yeah, they were there, with 20 foot high L-Ron posters) or I’ve seen one too many galleys of Conversations with God.
More from Conversational Reading: - BEA For the five or so of you who a) want to meet me, and b) are headed to BEA this year, send me an email...
- BEA Today’s the big day. I’ve got my Mac in tow, although I’m not sure of the wi-fi situation (or the spare time situation), so I...
- BEA–It’s Over The paperback edition of 2666. It’s even more beautiful in person. BEA was intense. It’s been a while since I have I been around...
- Friday Photos In advance of the 2008 olympics, China is trying to get rid of the bad Chinese-to-English translations found throughout Beijing. The Sun has graphics of...
- Friday Photos Thanks to Three Percent for pointing out this Wiki documenting "the most unusual books of the world." Some eye-popping photos here. ...
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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