Playboy will publish an excerpt of Vladimir Nabokov’s final work, an unfinished novella titled The Original of Laura. Don’t look so shocked: The magazine interviewed him in 1964. Ernest He… more →
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction NotesS wrote 18 hours ago: Lots of beachy (read: going-to-be-movies) books on the list but enjoyable nonetheless. A welcome … more →
Mark Athitakis wrote 1 week ago: Playboy will publish an excerpt of Vladimir Nabokov’s final work, an unfinished novella titled … more →
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whitewhaletheatre wrote 1 week ago: Everything has a value in India, nothing is wasted. E-waste dealer, Bangalore. The ship left a pie … more →
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Mark Athitakis wrote 3 weeks ago: John Callaway, longtime host of Chicago Tonight, the news program of the city’s PBS station, d … more →
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annotationnation wrote 1 month ago: book by Joshua Ferris annotation by Diane Sherlock Then We Came To The End, titled from DeLillo’s A … more →
sonnyliew wrote 1 month ago: A couple of quickish sketches… only ever read one of the harry potter books , but alan rickm … more →
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Katrina David wrote 1 month ago: “Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the makin … more →
JSE wrote 1 month ago: Kottke has a scan of some correspondence between Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace: a DDL->DFW … more →
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whiff wrote 2 months ago: This 800-page slab has seen some serious seething over at Amazon, where the One Star Rangers have b … more →
Mark Athitakis wrote 2 months ago: James Mulholland, an assistant professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, rec … more →
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Mark Athitakis wrote 2 months ago: Here’s Don DeLillo, winner of the 2009 Common Wealth Award, along with three fellow winners w … more →
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