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Dennis Haritou: Thanks for taking our questions, Mr. Lynch. There was some talk around the Random House office comparing Border Songs to aspects of Steinbeck and Of Mice and Men. Of course, the writer that you expressly quote in your story is not Steinbeck but the Fitzgerald of The Great Gatsby. The association that I had in Continue reading Jim Lynch Interview
Now, you have the opportunity to make up your own mind. Thanks to our good friends at Knopf, we are fortunate enough to present this short exerpt for your perusal. Don’t forget to read all the way to the end for the ARC giveaway. So, without any further waffling Continue reading Border Songs Excerpt and Giveaway Jason Rice: As far as debut novels go, things can be hit or miss, sometimes you make your mark, other times it’s the signal of something larger yet to come. When I first heard about your book I had no idea it would be such a powerful experience, I guess it was the remoteness of the second person voice you used that really affected me. What was it about that voice that got your engines going? And how did this book come to life, how long did it take you to write? Patrick deWitt: The second person narration, the ‘discuss’ device, and also the subtitle of the book, ‘Notes for a Novel,’ stems from my taking notes at Continue reading Patrick Dewitt Interview 
According to The Complete Review, Jim Coetzee has a new novel due out in September – entitled Summertime. Hope that’s available in the US as well. From Tools of Change, MB founder Laurel Touby tells everyone how to improve their book party. About time. Thanks to Galley Cat Writers get your submissions into the Kenyon Review for the new Short Fiction Contest. Who doesn’t look forward to new nonfiction by Zadie Smith. Maud quips for the fifth time. I would not have expected White to reference surfing. If you didn’t Continue reading What's going on… Jason Chambers: Coming up tomorrow, come back to read JR’s insightful interview with Patrick deWitt, author of Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, which is due out next week from Houghton. For now, entertain yourselves with this brilliant little trailer for the book, with animation by Carson Mell, and music by Patrick’s brother Nick.ABLUTIONS from Patrick deWitt on Vimeo. 
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-JR
The book itself is nearly 11×14 inches in size and is an absolutely fantastic collection of Mr. Wolf’s photographs which he took in 2007. Normally you don’t imagine what a building looks like; say the office building you work in when you’re sitting inside Continue reading The Transparent City Some people might say I’m a broken record.http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ And some new fiction appears here (just for a week): http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Fiction. Earlier I posted that I might read Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones, but after The Complete Review’s disembowelment of it, I may pass. Life’s too short and the reading pile too large. TEV points to Tom Stoppard’s interview with B&N Review. Remember this when you want to steal priceless works of art: You can’t show it to anyone. Thanks to ReadySteadyBook. On The Millions, Buzz Poole (what a name!) writes a review of The Lazarus Project, with which I completely agree. jc
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JC: If you read the excerpt earlier today, or saw Dennis’s earlier exclamations about Border Songs, you might be as excited about it as we are. Dennis had the chance to exchange a few emails with Jim Lynch recently. Here’s what they had to say:
JC: Thanks to therumpus.net for the kind words about 3G1B this morning.
Jason Chambers: A few scurrilous reviewers once again jumped the gun – some by a week or more – in covering The Women, T.C. Boyle’s new novel about Frank Lloyd Wright and the women who surrounded him. I, however, have patiently awaited the release date and avoided any coverage until this, my review. Granted, that I only just now got around to reading it, but I always found it annoying as a bookseller or buyer when someone reviewed a book for the public that they couldn’t buy. You have to either answer to the customers that walk in the door, and tell
I found this over here. I’m going to be doing some work for this Rumpus blog.
I was initially attracted The Transparent City because the images seemed so unreal to me, detached from reality a kind of intricate tapestry of city life. Michael Wolf was invited by the Museum of Contemporary Photography with the support of the U.S. Equities Realty to document the transformation of downtown Chicago, which has recently enjoyed a building boom.
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