Archive for August, 2008

The novel and the political blogger

Do political bloggers tend to think about novels differently? At Kos, Jennifer Nix rediscovers literature with The Lazarus Project. Elsewhere: Are fiction readers more socially adroit?

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Katrina Benefit/New Stories From the South party with ZZ Packer — and savory crawfish

Apart from heavy drinking, if anything will make August in New York City palatable, it’s the ZZ Packer/New Stories from the South party that Algonquin and Paste magazine are throwing August 28 to benefit KARES, a New Orleans organization established to help artists and writers post-Katrina, and Housing Works. I’ll be emceeing. We’ll have trivia and prizes, brief readings from . . .

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Bechdel’s Vermont

PW admires Alison Bechdel’s contribution to the forthcoming State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America.

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