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The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers
 Maybe about a year back, McSweeney’s launched its Believer Books imprint. Initially, Believer Books repurposed items originally printer in The Believer into slim volumes, like that Hornby book , but recently the imprint has shown signs of coming up with some interesting, original material. There was Houellebecq’s book on H.P. Lovecraft, and now Believer Books has published The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers. The interviews have been the one thing I’ve generally appreciated about The Believer, and this book is roughly 2/3 repurposed, 1/3 unpublished. Aside from Sean Wilsey’s banal interview with Haruki Murakami, the pieces presented here tend to be thoughtful and probing discussions with authors I’m interested in. There’s Tom Stoppard, Paul Auster, Ian McEwen, Zadie Smith, John Banville, Jonathan Lethem, and several others. If you’re a fan of interviews, it’s probably worth your time.
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- Believer, n + 1 In this article, which I’ll assume everyone has probably read by now, AO Scott does a pretty good job characterizing the distinct editorial approaches of...
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- Book Culture This interview up at Identity Theory (Robert Brinbaum interviews Ploughshares editor Don Lee) makes some pretty sobering points about today’s publishing world. RB: The discussions...
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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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Maybe about a year back, McSweeney’s launched its Believer Books imprint. Initially, Believer Books repurposed items originally printer in The Believer into slim volumes, like that Hornby book
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
This is an excellent book. Some of my favorite authors are represented here (Auster, Murakami), but I haven’t even read those interviews yet. I started in on some of the writers I didn’t know and I’ve really been enjoying them. Quotable. Well worth it, I think.
I haven’t read them all yet either, but the Auster interview is especially good. And extremely quotable.