Archive for June, 2006
Prolific Women
Alice Munro’s twelfth books is coming out in November: The View from Castle Rock. You can read an interview with her at the Virginia Quarterly Review. I love Alice Munro.
Joyce Carol Oates is ridiculously prolific. I can’t even go into it here, hence I send you to the great Wikipedia. I want to get a [...]
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Reading Habits
I used to read large chunks at a time–a novel in two days, that kind of thing. But now that I have a toddler in tow, my reading comes in bits and pieces, often interrupted, always expecting to be interrupted. I'll occasionally get some reading in before bed, or on the rare occasion that I [...]
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What’s New
Eva Longoria is going to publish an erotic novel.
Irvine Welsh has a new book coming out: The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chef. I haven't read Trainspotting, but I recently read "Lorraine Goes to Livingston: A Rave and Regency Romance," which is the first of three tales in Ecstasy. It was good, fresh. I flew [...]
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Why, Oh Why?
Poor Kaavya Viswanathan. Plagiarism, plagiarism everywhere and not a lawyer in sight.
If you haven't heard, Kaavya is the Harvard undergrad who signed a sweet two-book deal with Little, Brown and Company, and now she is caught in a legal / PR shitstorm after being accused of plagiarism in her first book, How Opal Mehta Got [...]
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Just Another Writer with a Blog
Another writer with a blog? Oh my freaking gawd. I can hear a chorus of groans reverberating through cyber space. Yes, every writer and his brother has a blog. I want one too, damn it. This is my second time around. My first round of blogging dissolved in scattered hysteria. This time I will focus. [...]
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