Tags: fiction
Tags: fiction
Book Notes - Kevin Sampsell ("Creamy Bullets")
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 1:54 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
When Jami Attenberg submitted her Book Notes essay for The Kept Man, she recommended Kevin Sampsell for this series. Just like some folks haven?t come around to GBV, or other bands that write great quickies (like Jason Anderson/Wolf Colonel, Pavement, early Spoon ).
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Book Notes - Ed Park ("Personal Days")
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 1:54 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
But chances are, Park (who writes a monthly online science fiction column for the L.A. Times Book Review) drew from personal experience of really lousy jobs to create this bitter, pathetic world that makes you snort your Starbucks when laughing at unexpected moments."
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Book Notes - Rabih Alameddine ("The Hakawati")
Posted Tuesday June 24, 2008, 1:47 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
If any work of fiction might be powerful enough to transcend the mountain of polemic, historical inquiry, policy analysis and reportage that stands between the Western reader and the Arab soul, it?s this wonder of a book?a book not about a jihadi but a hakawati (Arabic for storyteller).
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Largehearted Boy Summer Reading Suggestions
Posted Monday June 23, 2008, 1:48 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
What are the exceptional books you have read this year? Litblogger Mark Sarvas ( The Elegant Variation ) has produced a debut novel that captures the subtleties of relationships and pulls at your heartsrings while never forgetting how to make you laugh.
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Book Notes - Andrew Foster Altschul ("Lady Lazarus")
Posted Monday June 9, 2008, 2:53 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
In his own words, here is Andrew Foster Altschul's Book Notes essay for his debut novel, Lady Lazarus : With this song, Liz Phair turned male sexual aggression on its head and made all the world?s frat boys think twice about the?blow-job queens? they love to humiliate.
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Book Notes - DeLauné Michel ("The Safety of Secrets")
Posted Tuesday May 27, 2008, 2:12 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
Okay, yes, I danced to it when I started going to bars in Baton Rouge when I was fifteen, and never got carded because everyone always thought I was twenty-eight, which really is rather odd for them to all, but separately, pick that particular age to think I was.
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Book Notes - Steven Gillis ("Temporary People")
Posted Thursday May 15, 2008, 1:47 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. Just have to hear the first bar of the opening riff and I not only recognize the tune but turn up the radio. I told you I am a sucker for pop, but great tune.
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Note Books - Jonathan Zeitlin (Mezzanine Owls)
Posted Thursday May 15, 2008, 1:47 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
I read the bulk of it while stranded for a day in Zurich after missing a connecting flight in the sleepy haze of transatlantic travel, and slipped effortlessly through some fold in the curtains into that old companion, the American West. Mezzanine Owls posts at Largehearted Boy
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Book Notes - Jeff Talarigo ("The Ginseng Hunter")
Posted Thursday April 17, 2008, 2:10 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
My habit of listening to music while writing also began at this time, more out of necessity, than desire. Patti Griffin (CD?s Impossible Dream, A Kiss in Time and 1000 Kisses ) : her gorgeous, sad songs were in my ears more than any other while writing The Ginseng Hunter.
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A million penguins at a keyboard...
Posted Friday February 2, 2007, 3:47 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
Stately, plump Penguin Books is off on an experiment that is likely to fail in delightful, unpredictable ways...for which my hat is off to them. The wiki has a blog (but does the blog have a wiki?), and the Penguin blog talks about the experiment as well.
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