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A Q&A with Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing, on her new SF novel, The Cleft: “[W]hat a pity it couldn’t have … James Thurber cartoons to illustrate it.”

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Writing software

Scrivener: amazing new tool to help you finish your novel, or amazing new stalling tactic? Either way, sign me up. (See also.)

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Jim Hanas on Burke’s Book Store of Memphis

While I focus on things other than blogging this month, I’m running a series on independent bookstores. Below Jim Hanas recalls working at Memphis, Tennessee’s landmark Burke’s Book Store, which was founded in 1875 and doubles as a publisher of local-interest titles. The shop nearly went out of business last year but has since relocated to a different part of . . .

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Peter & Jane resurface

Britain’s Peter & Jane books document mid-century suburban mores just as Dick & Jane do here. (Via.) Someone buy a set for Caitlin Flanagan.

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