That book I won't shut up about? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!? It's finally in the store. Come in soon and get your copy--David E
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John Cheever once said, "I want to write short stories like I want to f*** a chicken." Soon after that utterance, his career took off and he's now acknowledged as a master of the short story.That's just one of the pithy revelations from Blake Bailey's new book Cheever: A Life. For more, check out this … Continue reading Too Good to Factcheck
National Book Critic Circle Winners Announced
The National Book Critics Circle announced its 2009 award winners yesterday. They are Fiction: Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (FSG)General Nonfiction: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War (Knopf)Biography: Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Knopf)Autobiography: Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq … Continue reading National Book Critic Circle Winners Announced
Musings from Magers and Quinn 