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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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January 29, 2008

Attention, Roller Derby scribes!
By Sharon Steel

Oh, we love oddly theme magazine issues. MediaBistro's GalleyCat alerted us to the fact that the literary magazine Barrelhouse is seeking your best roller derby writing for an upcoming issue. Some details to bear in mind:

Barrelhouse wants: "Fiction, essays, poems, whatever you got. Barrelhouse will select one winner who will receive original art created by Cory Oberndorfer, a genuine roller derby artist.

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Galley Cat, Local, 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

January 23, 2008

Knighted
By Sharon Steel

The New York Times has an interesting essay in their Sunday Book Review about how Elie Weisel's Night became a best-seller... again.

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Lit Links, Local, NYT

January 10, 2008

Anne Enright Divides Us
By Sharon Steel

Courtesy of The New Yorker

An interesting little literary roundtable of sorts happened in our corner of the Phoenix HQ today. We were discussing our fondness for a story in The New Yorker's winter fiction issue by Anne Enright, called "Natalie." Nina MacLaughlin (the other half of Word Up) and our colleague Adam Reilly, however, had recently read Enright's 2007 Booker Prize winning The Gathering

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Author Rants, Reading about Writing, The New Yorker

January 09, 2008

Problems, Solved
By Sharon Steel

Photo by Masayuki Yoshinaga
We were broken for a little while, but we're back, and happy to be here!

So here's the thing. We wrote about this book, Gothic + Lolita, a little while ago, but we're still kind of obsessed with it. It sits on our desk and we stare at the pictures when we're supposed to be writing about other things.

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