Archive for December, 2006

Whose generation?

On the last day of her month-long sojourn, Bookslut’s Jessa Crispin listens to the latest Slate Book Club podcast and tries to choke back a wave of yellow bile.

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The silence that greeted Dominion

Calvin Baker’s strangely neglected Dominion is one of the books I admired most this year. I understand that a novel so allusive, in which invocations of myth abound and the richness of language recalls the King James, isn’t going to appeal to everyone. But I look at some of the hyped-up claptrap that has critics pulling out their trumpets this . . .

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Fiction and poetry online

Eyeshot and Mississippi Review, two personal favorites, make Shauna McKenna’s list of best online fiction and poetry venues.

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New Rupert Thomson novel in August

I’ve been longing for Rupert Thomson’s Myra Hindley-inspired novel since he told me about it in May. Only eight more months to wait! (Hear Thomson speak here.)

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