Archive for June, 2008

Gaitskill in The New Yorker

I delayed renewing my NYer subscription & missed Mary Gaitskill’s Don’t Cry. A friend calls it “one of the most achingly beautiful stories I’ve ever read.”

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Denis Johnson’s next novel

Playboy is serializing Denis Johnson’s next novel, Nobody Move, in four installments. The L.A. Times’ David Ulin covers them for Jacket Copy starting Monday.

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Mark Sarvas reads at St. Mitchell’s Books & Books

My buddy Mark Sarvas is reading from his novel Harry Revised today (Saturday) at Books & Books, my hometown independent bookstore, and the place my mom took me in my teens when she announced I was old enough to “stop reading garbage.” So much has been said about the store and its founder, Miami Book Fair mastermind Mitchell Kaplan, that . . .

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