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Amazon.com, publisher?

Amazon intends to publish a YA novel, originally put out by the author, as part of a new imprint. Maybe that’s part of what this patent is about?

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Ben Greenman on the affinity of writers & strippers

Novelist and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman went on tour to promote his new novel, Please Step Back, which has its own theme song courtesy of funk legend Swamp Dogg. In Portland Greenman stopped at a coffee shop, Powell’s Books, and a strip club. His dispatch is below.   When I landed in Portland, I deplaned indifferently and went through . . .

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Pynchon’s crime novel

Tibor Fischer, on Pynchon’s latest: “If you had handed me the first 30 pages, I would have staked my life I was reading … the new Elmore Leonard.” (Via.)

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