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From time to time here on the blog we’re fortunate enough to get new work from established writers. James P. Othmer’s writing came to me like a fever dream with his blistering first novel ‘The Futurist’ which I reviewed in my column at Ain’t It Cool News. In a way his work reminds me of Kurt Andersen’s writing, in that he has an ability to travel forward or backwards in time a few weeks, years, and bring back completely new information and deliver it to the reading public like a magician. When I read ‘After Smithereens’ a few weeks ago it totally blew my mind. I’m thrilled to share it with you. After Smithereens By James P. Othmer(jamespothmer.com) “Did you ever think Continue reading After Smithereens – By James P. Othmer Dennis: Thanks Sana, for taking our questions. And I apologize that some of the questions are so long. My defense will have to be that your work encourages long questions which I certainly intend as a compliment. Issues relating to immigration lie in the foreground or at least in the background of all the stories in your collection, One More Year. There seems to be a constant cognitive and emotional dissonance in the stories as a result, like a low, somewhat menacing hum, even when the problem is not being addressed directly. And I have to call it a problem, because what I get out of your stories is not how wonderful it is to pull up roots and start again in Continue reading Sana Krasikov Interview
Of the Three Guys, I’m the one who is closest to having immigrant parents. My father arrived in NY early in the 20th century after exhausting several other continents and my mother was Continue reading One More Year by Sana Krasikov
But this is a rare case where both book and film adaptation flawlessly mirror each other. In both book and movie, an autocratic Sicilian prince is confronted with radical social and political change. He Continue reading The Leopard, Book and Movie
I was more taken by this novel than I had anticipated. The basic premise is that advertising sales star Continue reading More Than It Hurts You
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There is a flaw in my logic there somewhere but I don’t care. I could rank-out the Jasons if I had a verbal arsenal like this. But anyway, reading this book, which sounds Continue reading Reader's Alert – Reading the OED
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Dennis Haritou: I’m glad that I deliberately moved myself into the position of introducing our discussion of One More Year, a debut collection of short stories by Sana Krasikov. There is an undercurrent of dislocation in these stories in which characters, most of whom have emigrated to the U.S., try to cope with universal human dilemmas like who I am going to love and how I am to deal with my family while trying to balance a new world with the old one.
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Dennis Haritou: The anniversary of the release of the movie version of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa’s The Leopard has led to a stampede for current editions of the novel. Nothing could please me more since Luchino Visconti’s 1963 historical drama is indepensable movie viewing, both for it’s visual splendor and the outstanding performance of its cast, led by Burt Lancaster who makes a great Sicilian prince.
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Jason Chambers: Glad to see Dennis here talking about More Than It Hurts You on the blog, and the decision-making process that goes into his purchasing. I came across this book on my shelf a couple of weeks before it came out (I don’t remember when I picked it up initially) and thought it would be worth a quick read. I had not read any of Strauss’ previous novels, but remembered the publicity and positive reviews for the first one.
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Dennis Haritou: I noticed that this debut novel by Rajaa Alsanea about the lives of Saudi women, who struggle to balance their lives between two worlds, has been picked up with alacrity by both university bookstore and other serious literary bookstore markets. I put “debut novel” in italics because we are always interested in discovering new voices and new visions and it sounds like this narrative qualifies. It also brought to mind a memoir I read about the love of literacy among women in Iran, Readng Lolita in Tehran, which helped me to love literature even more by appreciating
Dennis Haritou: When I and my Penguin rep, Bill Martin, sat down to decide what to buy on this book, we were faced with a real problem. The author’s first novel, Chang and Eng, about a famous pair of Siamese twins, was a runaway success, especially in trade paper and received much critical praise. But the author’s second book had tanked (second book syndrome). So we were now faced with Darin Strauss’ third novel, More Than It Hurts You. So would it perform more like the first book or more like the second? In our buying decision we tried to take the middle ground and came up with a compromise
Dennis Haritou: I would love to do this. If I did, then I could be sure that I was literate. Besides, behind each word is a story and here are 21,730 pages of stories. Ammon Shea took a year off from existence (another goal of mine) to read the Oxford English Dictionary. If you have done that, it’s almost as if you have read every novel in English in the world because you have read all the words.
Dennis Haritou: I have seen a big spike in support for David Benioff’s novel this week, both from big guys and a diverse selection of independent accounts. It impresses me since it’s rather late in the game for this to happen. I suppose that David is focused more these days on writing his very successful screenplays, like Troy, Kite Runner, and 25th Hour among others, then on writing novels. But I wanted to assure him and his publisher, Penguin USA, that if he was planning on writing another novel, I am sure it would be very well received. I asked JR about this. His quote is below:
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