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In a sprawling, two-page article Daily Beast critic Mark Wortman laments the recent glut in extremely long books. In this epically long blog post titled “Are books becoming too long… 7 / Read more »

Where Pulitzer refrained, Carnegie leapt. Just a month after the Pulitzer Prize board could not agree on the year’s best work of fiction and didn’t give out its annual award,… Read more »

Farah Samti at Tunisia Live reports that rather than being wiped out, literary censorship has ‘simply changed forms’ since the country’s revolution. Before, books seen as harmful to the regime… Read more »

The first trailer for director Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of The Great Gatsby was released this week, and it certainly looks intriguing. The parties at Gatsby’s mansion, described in such… Read more »

The art of the literary interview Celebrating contemporary British fiction Microinterview with Jonathan Lethem Book about Stalin comes to an unfortunate end 50 shades of grey (the useful kind) Taking… Read more »