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LGBT Readathon!8 comments

SnugglingontheSofa wrote 1 month ago: This weekend I am taking part in the LGBT readathon, hosted by Faye of A Daydreamer’s Thoughts … more →

Tags: Readathon, book, ya, TBR, John Green, LGBT, a daydreamer's thoughts, Julie Peters, LGBT readathon

Review: Sprout - Dale Peck6 comments

jowearsoldcoats wrote 3 months ago: Synopsis from Goodreads. How many secrets can you hide in plain sight? Sprout Bradford has a secret. … more →

Tags: 2013, Contemporary, Review, ya, USYA, LGBT

"It's Progress That's The Real Delusion": Will Self's "Umbrella"1 comment

danhartland wrote 8 months ago: In an interview with the Edinburgh Festivals published last year, Will Self huffed and puffed: … more →

Tags: Books, Will Self, Booker Prize, Modernism, James Joyce, umbrella, Sam Leith, Jon Day

NYC Lit Crawl: Voyeuristic authors, Czech brothels, and cult-fighting samurai

literalab wrote 9 months ago: In this day and age when everyone wants to write a novel before they’ve read their fourth whole book … more →

Tags: Literary Events, Alex Zucker, Anthony Tognazzini, C. Max Magee, Irvine Welsh, Lit Crawl, Marketa Lazarova, Molly Ringwald, New York

William Giraldi vs. Alexander Chee: The NYT Alix Ohlin Chainsaw1 comment

Caleb Powell wrote 10 months ago: William Giraldi recently panned Alix Ohlin’s latest in The New York Times Book Review. Alexand … more →

Tags: Book Review, Bullshit Art, Books, Book, Alix Ohlin, William Giraldi, Richard Bausch, Alexander Chee, NYT

book / coffee

Mimallone wrote 1 year ago: Dale Peck / Fucking Martin / latte / The Treehouse … more →

Tags: Coffee, latte, The TreeHouse, Fucking Martin

A Few of Our Favorite Author vs. Critic Dustups5 comments

emilystemple wrote 1 year ago: This week, we read a fascinating article in The Atlantic about the “tortured history” of … more →

Tags: Books, Buzz, Alice Hoffman, Edmund Wilson, Richard Ford, Rick Moody, roberta silman, Stanley Crouch, Vladimir Nabokov

The Art, Woe, Slop, and Toe of the Book Review2 comments

Joe Linker wrote 1 year ago: In an era of sinking readership, closing bookstores, the disappearance of newspapers, and Google mak … more →

Tags: writing, Reading, Argument, The Believer, reading crisis, Literary criticism, book reviewing

Darwin and the Art of the Three Star Review4 comments

kmwinkler wrote 1 year ago: This is not a review. It’s, at best, a contemplation of a phenomenon I’ve yet to pinpoint. Or which … more →

Tags: General, awp, Editorial

Sprout

twoandten wrote 1 year ago: Copyright © 2009 by Dale Peck, published by Bloomsbury How many secrets can you hide in plain sight? … more →

Tags: Reviews, Naomi Spicer, Review, Sprout

The Rise of the Me-moir

observeroftimes wrote 1 year ago: Actor Nicholas Hope looked disappointed when he only came second in the pitching competition at the … more →

Tags: the life of the writer, emma forrest, Matthew Thompson, My Colombian Death, Diana Atkinson, gillian rose, Rick Moody, Highways and Dancehalls, Love’s Work

Words Without Borders: Queer Issue II + an excerpt and interview from Abdellah Taïa.2 comments

Elaine Castillo wrote 2 years ago:   Words Without Borders has recently released its second annual Queer Issue, and there are some … more →

Tags: Abdellah Taïa, PEN World Voices Festival, Queer, Words Without Borders

10 Notorious Literary Spats17 comments

flavorwire wrote 2 years ago: Patrick Kingsley recently wrote in The Guardian about “poisonous literary feuds” and the … more →

Tags: Books, Buzz, Colson Whitehead, Derek Walcott, Gore Vidal, james patterson, jennifer egan, Jennifer Weiner, John Updike

Sprout, by Dale Peck (2009)

lgbtya wrote 2 years ago: Sprout, the 2009 novel by Dale Peck, explores the life of Daniel “Sprout” Bradford, who … more →

Tags: Fiction Reviews, Gay Fiction, Gay, Literature, Lambda, coming out, Sprout, young adult literature, stonewall

Links: So Much for That2 comments

Mark Athitakis wrote 2 years ago: Wendy Lesser: “[T]he literary critics I really care about are mostly dead.” In response … more →

Tags: Paul Auster, Lionel Shriver, Rudolph Wurlitzer, James M. Cain, jennifer egan, Suri Hustvedt

Links: Across the Pond1 comment

Mark Athitakis wrote 2 years ago: “What the US provides, in a way that Britain doesn’t, are effective opportunities for young wr … more →

Tags: Jonathan Lethem, Jeffrey Eugenides, Mary Gaitskill, William S. Burroughs, richard powers, Michael Cunningham, Roger Rosenblatt, E.L. Doctorow, Anne Tyler

Will the Real Alienator Please Stand Up (Thomas Bernhard or Dale Peck?)8 comments

Terry wrote 2 years ago: Thomas Bernhard (not Dale Peck) Complaining about the The New York Times Book Review is simply shoot … more →

Tags: W.G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard, Book Reviews

Interview With A Vamp-Writer

davidsamuellevinson wrote 2 years ago: Image via Wikipedia Dale Peck interviews me. Check it out here: http://vimeo.com/15884511. … more →

Tags: Publishing 2, writing, Rick Moody, Joshua Furst, Thomas Pynchon, amy heckerling

Dale Peck Regrets6 comments

Mark Athitakis wrote 2 years ago: A few weeks back I attended an event in New York called “Revise and Recant,” where a few … more →

Tags: Thomas Pynchon


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