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Book News for July 3, 2009 HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!! Rachel Maddow (l.) and John Hodgman, wearing the world's best T-shirt and the world's second-greatest facial expression. (Via.) Have a safe and happy weekend! Flood Sleaze, Busting Ass, and Bohemians How would you describe Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around? If your sister or cousin was kind of artsy and lived with her kind of artsy boyfriend and two basset hounds and someone suddenly stuck a hammer in her hand and dropped her into a scary, flooded wasteland and said hey, y'all tear down this whole [...] Keats’s Afterlife Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly Reviewed by Christopher Ricks Washington Post Book World Rome, November 30, 1820. John Keats, who at the age of twenty-five has less than three months to live, is writing to his friend Charles Brown in England: I have an habitual feeling of my [...] Small Press Conversation: Chelsea Martin and Brandon Scott Gorrell Kevin Sampsell notes: Brandon Scott Gorrell is a poet who lives in Seattle, Washington. His book During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present was just published by MuuMuu House. It's full of dryly humorous observations and what you might call postmodern confessional poems. Brandon recently emailed me and asked if I'd [...] Book News for Thursday, July 2, 2009 Caught In the Rye: Don't expect to read J. D. California's Fredrik Colting's "unauthorized sequel" 60 Years Later in the United States. Not anytime soon, at least, as a federal judge has taken the side of J. D. Salinger's lawsuit and blocked the book's publication. In her decision, Judge Deborah Batts ruled that Fredrik [...] Artsy? Artists and their art projects color the pages of Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around, my memoir of three bizarre years rebuilding my flooded life in New Orleans. Probably more than I realized. Here's a partial guide. Citizen Loser A guy named Jonathan had floated around the flood in an innertube taking photographs. After [...] Social Satire Trouble by Kate Christensen Reviewed by Katherine Dunn The Oregonian [Editor's note: We'd like to welcome the Oregonian as our new Review-a-Day partner. Look for a new Oregonian review every Thursday.] The term "Chick Lit" gives me hives. It reeks of patronizing scorn, but what's worse, a lot of the stuff that wears [...] Powell’s Q&A: Julia Quinn Describe your latest project. What Happens in London is the story of Lady Olivia Bevelstoke, a slightly bored debutante in regency England who starts spying on her neighbor when she hears a rumor that he killed his fiancée. He didn't, of course; he's never even had a fiancée, but Sir Harry Valentine does work for [...] |
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