Archive for May, 2007



Are book reviewers out of print?

Motoko Rich very kindly mentions this site — and a number of other blogs, including TEV, Bookslut, and Syntax of Things — in her New York Times article on the unfortunate disappearance of newspaper book reviews like the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s. Maud Newton, who has been writing a literary blog since 2002, said she has the freedom to follow obsessions . . .

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When genre becomes reality

Today a novel set in a barren Rome would be seen as science fiction, but in 100 years this kind of setting could be a reality. See also: new apocalyptic stories.

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