Roundup: Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Price, Rachel Cline

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 Life

Birnbaum has a new Book Digest up.

Rachel Cline (My Liar) talks with January Magazine.

Added to bookmarks: Overbooked

One Story (and, okay, more)

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.

"The Great Man" wins PEN/Faulkner Award

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.

Are You Good in Bed?

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.

Liberal Fascism

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."

Life is a short story.

Warren Adler, author of The War of The Roses and like 25 other books, has released two new works: New York Echoes (short stories) and Funny Boys (a novel).

He's probably not too enthused about my mentioning his books, considering this statement from his website:

There is no escape. We are drowning in words. The blogs are fogging up the world. They are everywhere, in text, sound and video, a whirling dervish of yak yak, an endless buffet of opinions, hawking concepts, beliefs, convictions, perceptions, speculations. Nothing goes unsaid or unwritten. Silence has been defeated by technology. Reflection has given way to immediacy. Say or write everything on your mind. Edit nothing. We have become a world of monologists.

"No escape." "Drowning." "Everywhere." "Endless." "Nothing." "Everything." "Nothing." "A world of ____." I've not read any of this man's books, but he sure has a flair for the general and the dramatic.