Below novelist Jami Attenberg talks with Kate Christensen about unexpected convergences in their most recent books. You can meet Attenberg (pictured below) tonight at Barnes & Noble Chelsea, at an event for The Kept Man, which I read over the holidays. And as long as we’re on the subject of kept men and great men, here’s Attenberg on dirty old . . .
Jack Pendarvis‘ future comic book hero starts out as a normal high school student, but becomes Sex Devil.
Carrie Frye rereads Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” and goes looking for a Poiret dress from the bride’s trousseau.
A bill to amend Turkey’s Article 301, the law that criminalizes “insulting Turkishness,” may go to Parliament later this week.
This overview of candidates’ memoirs reminds me that I want to read Obama’s & Edwards’. See also.