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June 19, 2008

Odds and Ends
By Sharon Steel

The winning story of Boston Review's 15th annual fiction contest is online; I think it's unpretentious and moving.
Advance Reading Copies are the new cute dogs -- they do all the romantic luring for you. (They also make excellent -- and free -- birthday presents.)
"Hey babe, I have a great idea for this weekend!" I can just picture the look so many boyfriends' faces

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June 05, 2008

For the Twitter Addicts...
By Sharon Steel

It's bkkeepr! We like. [Link via Russell Davies]

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Lit Links, Blogs

June 03, 2008

Exploring Goodreads
By Sharon Steel

I finally got around to reading my May email update from Goodreads.com, one of several social networking sites for book nerds like me. (I use it primarily to keep track of my own current reading habits / progress; I’m less interested in reading/writing reviews.) Since I joined about a year ago, the site has continuously improved; recent updates include the ability to purchase books directly from your “To-Read” list, and an addictive, reader-formulated book quiz.

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Lit Links, Things We Love, YA

April 23, 2008

Making Love With Norman
By Sharon Steel

How stoked was Richard Johnson when he and the rest of the Page Six crew got to slap the headline "Mailer's Lust Goes to Harvard" on today's Post? We're still getting over the ick-factor, but the item is pretty interesting, if you like reading about the fact that even Pulitzer-Prize winning authors dare their mistresses to write 50-page sex scenes.

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April 15, 2008

Unaccustomed Earth's Swift Rise
By Sharon Steel

Yesterday, we told you about Sloane Crosley's debut on the Times's nonfiction paperback bestseller list, yet we neglected to rhapsodize about the #1 book on the hardcover fiction list. That would be Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's (former Boston resident and graduate of BU's Creative Writing program) critically lauded Unaccustomed Earth

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April 10, 2008

Virtual Bookish Collage Crafting!
By Sharon Steel
Okay!! Our editor sent us this link to Polyvore a couple of weeks ago, and we were all, oh, cool, it's like Cher's computer in Clueless. And then we promptly forgot about it.

But the delightful T.Y. at the Lit Connection was inspired, and she created two book-themed character collages which we're totally envious of. The first is inspired by the prom scene in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight, the second, which is our favorite, is inspired by The Witch from Blackbird Pond! Go look at them, NOW! She also made one for a young Ernest Hemmingway and Sixteen Candles!

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Lit Gossip, Lit Links, Things We Love

April 07, 2008

Liz Phair Has Five Jobs and One of Them is Novelist
By Sharon Steel

Yup. Liz Phair reviewed Dean Wareham's Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance in this Sunday's NYTBR. Among other things, we have learned that her mother named her Elizabeth Clark Phair because she thought it would make a good New Yorker byline. But more importantly, and most exciting, is the fact that Liz is finishing up her first book -- "fiction, not memoir.

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Everyone's An Author, Lit Gossip, Lit Links

March 03, 2008

The New Yorker reviews Gossip Girl
By Sharon Steel

Er, more specifically, JANET MALCOLM has reviewed Gossip Girl, and we're talking about the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar, not the television series by Josh Scwhartz. Oh, we are completely losing our shit over this review. It is three pages long online, although we would be so happy if it were longer, and that Malcolm did succumb against her own will and "go on telling Blair stories until they are gone.

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Lit Links, Publishing, The New Yorker

February 27, 2008

Word Up Exclusive Author Q&A: Aimee Liu
By webteam

Word Up pauses from our usual coverage of literary gossip and socialite authoresses to call your attention to the fact that it's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. As such, we are quite pleased to present you with an online-only author interview with writer and lecturer Aimee Liu. In Liu's first memoir, 1979's Solitaire, she detailed her first battle with anorexia, and nearly three decades later she's returned with New York Times bestseller Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

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February 27, 2008

Word Up Exclusive Author Q&A: Aimee Liu
By Sharon Steel

Word Up pauses from our usual coverage of literary gossip and socialite authoresses to call your attention to the fact that it's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. As such, we are quite pleased to present you with an online-only author interview with writer and lecturer Aimee Liu. In Liu's first memoir, 1979's Solitaire, she detailed her first battle with anorexia, and nearly three decades later she's returned with New York Times bestseller Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

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Author Q&A, Lit Links, On Tour

February 22, 2008

"Titles change!"
By webteam

David Sedaris: we are fans, we must admit. Not of all of his work, but much of it. We missed the fact that the title of his latest book, set for a June publication date, keeps on changing. Leon Neyfakh at the Observer didn't, and asked Sedaris to please explain.

We can't help but sort of adore the fact that Sedaris loves the titles his boyfriend suggests and then, ultimately, rejects them.

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Lit Gossip, Lit Links, NY Observer

February 20, 2008

Lit-Tionary
By Sharon Steel

This Independent piece got The Elegant Variation musing about various possible literary genres. It's an amusing list, and the comment-supplied suggestions are great, too.

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Lit Links, Publishing

February 04, 2008

Monday Round-Up: Spilled Milk
By Sharon Steel

James Frey is serious about his come-back, so much so that he's jazzing up his forthcoming novel, Bright Shiny Morning, with jacket art by his friend Richard Prince. He's also thinking of going Ira Glass on us, with a book tour that the New York Post's Page Six likens to something that sounds more like a concert tour:

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Book Scandal, Lit Gossip, Lit Links

February 01, 2008

Fine Lines: It's Like Eating Your Favorite Book
By Sharon Steel

Okay, we feel badly for calling out Jezebel about the whole bitter thing -- it's not all the time! it's just about certain stuff! and we understand how they feel because excessive shallowness is annoying! -- but anyway, we are kissing their collective bums over this Friday Fine Lines feature that they've been running for the past while.

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January 31, 2008

Literary Links: Unpleasant realities edition
By Sharon Steel

Uh oh. Thirteen people in Turkey were arrested for plotting to kill Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red).

What a surprise! Oprah's latest Book Club pick is Eckhart Tolle's self-help tome A New Earth. Congratulations, Eckhart -- please enjoy being the spiritual teacher for this entire nation.

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