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March 31, 2008

He's Just Not That Into Your Library
By Sharon Steel

Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet? Or her subsquent Paper Cuts blog post, in which she asked Times readers to state their own literary dealbreakers?

So, what are the most common literary dealbreakers? People who don't read at all, people who love Ayn Rand, people who dote on Harry Potter, people who worship The Da Vinci Code, people who are too pretentious, and people who aren't pretentious enough.

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Essays, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Idiotic Decisions

March 20, 2008

E-Books: Ew
By Sharon Steel

We love the Interweb! (Except when it tries to break our blog.)

But you know what we don't love? E-books. E-books are gross. It's like, we and nearly everyone else we know with day jobs spend hours upon hours staring at a screen and reading the Internet all day long. Everyone reads a different Internet. We like to read about literary gossip (um, duh), regular gossip, music, criticism, musical criticism, literary criticism, clothes, media, and more assorted esoteric shit.

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Idiotic Decisions, Lit Gossip, Publishing

February 26, 2008

More "Fine Lines": Why obsess over the NYTBR when you can obsess over 80's YA?
By webteam
Hell to the yes. "Fine Lines," the newish Friday feature at ultimate lady-blog Jezebel just keeps getting more and more delish. The past fortnight showcased two of our especial YA favorites: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger and Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Read them both, then come back to us, if you choose.

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Author Rants, Jezebel, On Writing

January 29, 2008

Books That Make You Dumb
By Sharon Steel
Since nobody is reading anything anymore except text-messages and blogs, then we guess it shouldn't matter which books make you smart and which make you dumb, at least according to this guy (link via Blog of a Bookslut). We prefer literature to statistics. After puzzling over this chart for a very long ten minutes, we still don't fully understand it or this list, which is supposed to explain the graph.

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Bookslut, Publishing, Rejection

September 11, 2007

Writer, Rejected
By Sharon Steel

From the New York Times Sunday Book Review, here's David Oshinsky's great essay about Knopf's biggest (and most regretable) rejections.

See for yourself.

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Lit Gossip, NYT, On Writing

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He's Just Not That Into Your Library
Published 3/31/2008 by Sharon Steel
Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet? Or her subsquent...

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E-Books: Ew
Published 3/20/2008 by Sharon Steel
We love the Interweb! (Except when it tries to break our blog.)But you know what we don't love? E-bo...

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