JC: Thanks to therumpus.net for the kind words about 3G1B this morning.
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 catch the million stories about Darwin and Lincoln sharing the same birthdate, you weren’t paying attention. No links here – just go to your favorite news outlet and search. It’s there, I promise. Nothing the media likes better than tying coincidences together.
Publishing folks no doubt know that BEA will be in NYC for the near future. Perhaps the publishers who are saving so much money by not having to travel to DC or Chicago or LA, will subsidize those booksellers who will have to make the longer trip year after year. Yeah, right.
Lastly, if you haven’t seen them yet, check out the reviews, and subsequent letters about Kafka’s Amerika, as newly translated by Mark Harman. NYT and LAT. Also, if you missed it the first time around, read DH’s interview with Mark: Part 1, Part 2.
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