Tags: fiction
Tags: fiction
Book Notes - Zach Plague ("boring boring boring boring boring boring")
Posted Wednesday November 26, 2008, 8:07 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
All right, groan already, but Zach Plague's Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring is one of the better modern satires I've read in a while, if only because it doesn't pound the reader over and over with a hammer, pestering her to accept some pithy moral.
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Book Notes - Maria Semple ("This One Is Mine")
Posted Wednesday November 26, 2008, 8:07 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
You hear one and gasp at how perfectly it fits into your novel, even old songs you've heard a million times but now make you question the space-time continuum because they actually seem to be inspired by characters in your book. Apparently the lyrics are, "Open your eyes/ To these I must lie."
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Today's Updates to the Year-End "Best of 2008" Books & Music Lists
Posted Wednesday November 26, 2008, 8:07 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
Today's additions to the "best of 2008" books and music lists (Keep up with daily additions at the update archive page ): "Best of 2008" Music Lists additions: daily updates to the 2008 year-end "best of 2008" books & music lists
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Book Notes - Roy Kesey ("All Over")
Posted Thursday July 17, 2008, 8:13 am, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
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Note Books - The Portland Cello Project
Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 11:20 pm, Over one day old at Largehearted Boy
So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and I invited everyone out to dinner? separately? since getting 15 of us together at the same time for something other than a show or rehearsal would have ended up a debaucherous and drunken evening of non-literary chaos.
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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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