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On Wednesday, Amazon rolled out a press release announcing that it had swung a major deal — 47 books — for a major author — the late Ed McBain —… 28 / Read more »

Lars Iyer, author of Spurious (the first novel in a trilogy that will include Dogma and Exodus) discusses Kafka, comedy, friendship, and the apocalypse at the new literary website Full-Stop.net. Here a few highlights… Read more »

Catching up on my Biblioklept yesterday, I caught the following video of Žižek talking about parenting (with some actual parenting thrown in for good measure) that would’ve been a bit more… Read more »

News to me, via Lapham’s Quarterly: In 1969 Vladamir Nabokov was interviewed for an article in The New York Times, and was asked, “How  do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the… 2 / Read more »