Sarah Hepola has written a mash note to Chuck Klosterman, and it's posted on salon.com.The occasion is Chuck's turn to fiction. His first novel Downtown Owl has just been published. Says Hepola, "Klosterman, a man who built his career on dazzling, antic nonfiction, has also done something unexpected. (And yet, at the same time, totally … Continue reading Mash Note
Must… Read… Book
Salon.com has kicked off its new "Must Read" series with a review of Kate Atkinson's latest novel When Will There Be Good News?. Like Atkinson's earlier novels, WWTBGN is hard to classify: Salon called it "a work of fancy, genre-bending footwork in which a rueful, cranky, modern comedy-of-manners dances an intricate minuet with an unlikely … Continue reading Must… Read… Book
Bolt from the Blue
Two authors are among the 25 recipients of the latest round of the MacArthur Foundation's "genius grants." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus, and Alex Roth, who penned The Rest is Noise, a history of music in the twentieth century, will each receive $500,000 to further their work.Since … Continue reading Bolt from the Blue
Musings from Magers and Quinn 