- Alex Beam gives a scathing account of self-publishing in the Boston Globe. Contrast it with Lev Grossman’s essay on Publishing in the Digital Age. Discuss. You can always count on TEV for a thoughtful point of view on the subject, and the NYT jumps into the fray on Google’s digital library.
- Happy Birthday, Richard Yates. Check out the recording discovered by the Phoenix.
- The Believer has an early Gaitskill interview (found by way of The Rumpus).
- While I am thinking about reading The Kindly Ones, I am especially unlikely to read translator Charlotte Mandell’s follow-up, Mathias Enard’s Zone (thanks Conversational Reading) after she said this about it:
“the novel is written around one long sentence”.
I think I’ve seen enough. Read the whole interview at Quarterly Conversation.
- I don’t know Tod, and he’s not my friend , but I’m thankful he wrote this.
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