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By Emily Gogolak
Rachel Kushner was the girl who spent her teens sneaking onto the backs of motorcycles in California. Today, a couple of decades later, she's the... More >>
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By Scott Foundas
It's March, but a zigzag of skiers still winds its way down Corkscrew, Aspen Mountain's double-black-diamond run. This is the view from Justice... More >>
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Edited By James Hannaham
King of Cuba
By Cristina García, May 21
Set partially in modern Havana, García's sixth novel offers a profane, rollicking sendup... More >>
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By Alan Scherstuhl
No exaggeration: I coughed hot soup out of my nose while reading the new hardbound volume of deadpan dadaist Michael Kupperman’s Tales... More >>
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By Emily Gogolak
What happens when F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson? Welcome to Kristopher Jansma's debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, a... More >>
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By Angela Ashman
“Authors are just notoriously difficult,” says the publicity director in Jessica Francis Kane’s story “How to Become a... More >>
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By Alan Scherstuhl
Chief among the dark oddities of life in 18th- and 19th-century London is that the city, which produced so many dead, was itself forever in want... More >>
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By Emily Gogolak
David Shields did it, again. He killed the novel.
But it's less painful than it sounds. In How Literature Saves My Life, his eleventh book and... More >>
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Elizabeth Hand's Errantry, Jon Peterson's history of Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games
By Alan Scherstuhl
In an age when the price of a movie ticket can get you three hours of hang-time in Middle Earth, fantasy worlds aren’t exactly at a... More >>
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By Eric Sundermann
Jump right into the New Year by celebrating the new issue of New York-based literary magazine n+1 at McNally Jackson on January 3. Issue number... More >>
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Voice writers offer their picks from the year
If the book is in crisis, we didn't notice on our end. 2012 saw a ton of new offerings. Our scribes select a batch of the ones they liked... More >>
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The biographer reads at Book Court on Thursday with Rob Sheffield
By Eric Sundermann
If there's a ghost fifth member of the Smiths, it might be Tony Fletcher.
The 48-year-old British author, who's written biographies about Keith... More >>
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Plus Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland
By Alan Scherstuhl
It's not an insult to the work of Annemarie Schwarzenbach that many readers, in the decades since her death in 1942, have found her writing not... More >>
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Moderated by Amy Wheeler, the discussion is curated by She Writes and Hedgebrook Writers Retreat
By Eric Sundermann
On Tuesday, December 4 at 7 p.m., Cobble Hill's BookCourt (this year's Best Of New York winner for best bookstore) will host a panel discussion... More >>
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The entertainer's shelf helps boost your festive spirits
By Ben Keene
Take away the gift giving, the cheesy music, the elaborate window displays, and a few fleeting days off from work, and what do the holidays leave... More >>
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Books by Andri Snær Magnason, Wendy Guerra, Rosa Montera, and Paul Elie
By Alan Scherstuhl
A laugh-out-loud apocalypse, a daft two-against-the-world love story, and a slashing yet humane science-fiction satire of our faith in corporate... More >>
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Plus, a few words about Brooklyn
By Alexandra Bell
Jami Attenberg’s latest novel, The Middlesteins, travels through the life of Edie Middlestein, a once portly child, now obese adult, thrown... More >>
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By Eric Sundermann
British Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh's debut novel Out of It tells the story of Rashid and Iman, twins from Gaza. While Gaza is being bombed,... More >>
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By Eric Sundermann
James Wolcott dropped out of college and left Maryland in 1972 with eyes full of literary dreams and a letter of recommendation from Norman... More >>
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A Hoboken murder, an e-book revolution, and a challenge to re-conceive the economy
By Alan Scherstuhl
One of the few happy developments here at the end of all book culture has been the vigorous re-publication of out-of-print marvels by the New... More >>