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Tag Archives: Fiction
Summer Reading List
Once again Barack Obama has released his summer reading list. On Facebook, he wrote, “Whether you’re camped out on the beach or curled up on the couch on a rainy day, there’s nothing quite like sitting down with a great book … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Fiction, Nobel Prize in Literature, President Obama, Reading
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A Mild Case of Bibliomania
In this charming video below, Raymond Russell tells the story of his bibliomania, how his book collection has grown and changed over the years, and how it led to the founding of the Tartarus Press, which has published rare … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Book collecting, Britain, Fiction, Publishing
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Call For The Dead
Last week, Viking announced that this year—which happens to be the 60th anniversary of the publication of John le Carré’s first novel, Call for the Dead—they will publish the late writer’s twenty-sixth, and likely last, novel, Silverview. Silverview will be … Continue reading
Not in the Nick of time
I recently read that there is a prequel to The Great Gatsby scheduled for publication in January 2021 when the copyright expires on F.Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel. On January 1, 2021, the iconic book enters the public domain in … Continue reading
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Tagged F. Scott Fitzgerald, fan fiction, Fiction, Publishing
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An Honor Without Irony
Last week, an outdoor sculpture honoring the iconic American author J.D. Salinger was dedicated on a hillside near his family’s ancestral home in Lithuania. The artwork celebrates the writer’s most acclaimed novel The Catcher in the Rye. Ironically, Salinger’s 1951 bildungsroman … Continue reading
Free Books in Translation
Archipelago Books is giving away 30 e-books (in ePub or PDF format) from their back catalogue. Most are translated works of fiction, though you’ll also find poetry, such as by the Cuban Dulce María Loynaz (tr. James O’Connor), and the hard-to-categorize Novices of Sias … Continue reading
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Tagged books in translation, ebooks, Fiction, Poetry
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Smiley’s People
I’m a huge fan of John le Carré and have read everything that he’s written. No matter how one may feel about his politics, he’s the undisputed master of the espionage novel. Artist Matt Taylor has illustrated a quite number … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Writing
Tagged Cold War, espionage, Fiction, John Le Carre, The Night Manager
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