PEN World Voices coverage at Metaxu Cafe comes from several different bloggers lucky enough to be in New York City this week.
Words Without Borders has several events there. (We had been meaning to link you to WWB for a while, though they're not exactly underground.)
We're hoping to get our literary-event fix this weekend in Burlington, where
Amy Goodman is promoting her new book,
Standing Up to the Madness.
posted by Matt Borondy on 5/01/2008
Hillary Carlip, an interviewee of mine from a year ago, is back in action with a new book,
A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers.
Publisher's Weekly says of the tome: "The 26 vivid photographic portraits and accompanying narratives display the author's humor, grace and a brilliantly creative eye. Carlip's alter egos are larger than life and twice as entertaining... A hilarious, delightful, unique achievement."
posted by Matt Borondy on 4/09/2008
Anita Thomspon, wife of the late Hunter S. Thompson, speaks:
"I'm going to get hell for this interview."From Bookforum: James Gibbons on
Richard Price's Lush LifeBirnbaum has a new
Book Digest up.
Rachel Cline (
My Liar) talks with
January Magazine.
Added to bookmarks:
Overbooked
posted by Matt Borondy on 3/26/2008
Bookslut
interviews Maribeth Batcha, editor of the
One Story literary journal: "We get about 150 submissions a week and publish 18 a year. Genre isn't an issue. We like everything, be it straightforward or experimental, or about mothers or zombies."
Science fiction writer
Arthur C. Clarke is dead.
Not that this
Onion article needs any more coverage, but Louis Fundable suggested we link it up:
"Novelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation Whatsoever"The (controversial, possibly sexist)
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction longlist is out.
Birnbaum's
latest book digest consults George Saunders.
posted by Matt Borondy on 3/18/2008
Kate Christensen's novel
The Great Man has won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.
According to the
Washington Post,
The Great Man's "ironic title refers to a recently deceased painter" but the "focus is on the women in his life."
Maud Newton
interviewed Kate last October:
"If by some stroke of bizarre and undeserved fortune my first novel had been hailed as genius and won prizes and I'd floated off in a filmy golden bubble of critical blowjobs and huge advances, that would not have been in any way as good for me as a writer as being written off as disposable fluff. Honestly."
Purchase The Great Man over at Powells.
posted by Matt Borondy on 3/13/2008
Jennifer Weiner's
Good in Bed has been re-released with a new cover, roughly coinciding with the upcoming publication of her new book,
Certain Girls.
This week, we are giving away two copies of the new version of
Good in Bed to our readers and MySpace friends.
To enter the drawing, email editor@identitytheory.com using the subject line "I am Good in Bed," or post a comment with those words on our
MySpace page.
Winners will be announced in our
newsletter next week.
For more about Jennifer Weiner's books, including a sample chapter from
Certain Girls, visit
jenniferweiner.com.
posted by Matt Borondy on 3/11/2008
Powell's website reprinted a review of Jonah Goldberg's
Liberal Fascism that first appeared in
The New Republic. Apparently, the original subtitle of this inflammatory book was
"The Totalitarian Temptation From Mussolini to Hillary Clinton."
posted by Matt Borondy on 3/06/2008 
