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Ersi Sotiropoulos Reading Today in NYC
Those who want a taste of new Greek writing--as well as of a Best Translated Award nominated writer--can check out this Ersi... »
Alberto Manguel’s Odd Bolano Pan
Writer Alberto Manguel is certainly a critic to be taken seriously. In reader-unfriendly times he has stuck up for reading as... »
Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery Reviewed @ TQC
The latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is Ahmad Saidullah's critique of Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery by Manuel... »
Published Off the Record
Wyatt Mason's adulatory essay on Leonard Michaels (the "contemporary American writer I most admired") offers a startling precis... »
Kamikaze Attacks on the Status Quo
Interesting essay by Heinrich von Kleist's translator Peter Wortsman, whose Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist was recently... »
Nice Moves
From Elisa Gabbert's review of the poetry collection PERSONATIONSKIN at Open Letters Monthly: I included... »
New Review @ TQC
The latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is of Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist, an author of which Thomas Mann... »
Literary Concentrate
One thing I've been noticing about the reviews of Point Omega is that just about everyone is calling the book extremely dense.... »
About a Mountain by John D’Agata
How did About a Mountain slip by me? Looks awesome. It sounds something like Don DeLillo, and D'Agata has been praised by DFW.... »
Wonder by Hugo Claus
The deeper I get into this year's Best Translated Book Award longlist, the clearer it is becoming how much deeper a list this... »

Alberto Manguel?s Odd Bolano Pan: Alberto Manguel?s Odd Bolano PanWriter Alberto Manguel is certainly a critic to ... http://bit.ly/dcb5Rr [link]
RT @mattbucher, what's happening re: the dreams in The Part About the Critics http://is.gd/7Z622 [link]
reading 600-page plaasroman. pretty good so far. [link]
Published Off the Record: Published Off the RecordWyatt Mason?s adulatory essay on Leonard Michaels (the ?contempo... http://bit.ly/bMlIm6 [link]
even when I was a dumb little high schooler, pretty much understood this was strictly for the super-lame kids http://tinyurl.com/y8tkzvu [link]
"Her fee was $100,000 for the appearance . . ." Sounds like a decent payoff for soaking up love from a group of morons. [link]
the stupid leading the imbecilic http://tinyurl.com/ye3r9ro [link]
Nice Moves: Nice MovesFrom Elisa Gabbert?s review of the poetry collection PERSONATIONSKIN at Open Letters Monthly... http://bit.ly/cOfUA6 [link]
About a Mountain by John D?Agata: About a Mountain by John D?AgataHow did About a Mountain slip by me? Looks aweso... http://bit.ly/axv3qo [link]
OMG!!! Daily Beast quoted M. Kakutani's pan of new DeLillo novel. Soooo not going to read it now! http://tinyurl.com/yke5buo [link]

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Max has a list of upcoming books. What’s nice is that for virtually all of them he links to excerpts or otherwise pertinent into. Useful stuff.

Watch out, though. He has Amazon links for all of them, so you can’t really be sure if he really likes the books or if he just based his picks on some crazy algorithm that registered these as the most likely to result in Amazon kickbacks.

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Ersi Sotiropoulos Reading Today in NYC

Alberto Manguel’s Odd Bolano Pan

Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery Reviewed @ TQC

Published Off the Record

Kamikaze Attacks on the Status Quo

Nice Moves

New Review @ TQC

Literary Concentrate

About a Mountain by John D’Agata

Wonder by Hugo Claus

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