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Q&A with Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle tells Gregory Cowles that his next novel, Big Machine, considers the essential American question: who gets God? (More LaValle.)

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Pynchon’s next

Stephen Moore says Thomas Pynchon’s next book will be 400 pages — a 60’s noir story, heavy on the psychedelia. (See also.)

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Marianna, FL teacher decodes “change” with racist slur

Just as the cockles of my heart were warming over Ralph Stanley’s banjo pickin’ Obama radio spot, a reader in North Florida sends along a little something that guarantees they’ll be frozen over till at least sometime next April. The Jackson County School Board has taken action against a teacher who apparently made racial commentary on presidential candidate Barack Obama. . . .

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