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About the author

“He lives in Montana with his future ex-wife,” and other honest author bios. (Thanks, Lauren.)

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Solzhenitsyn now

In “a society where the mass media are reduced to self-censoring impotence,” Solzhenitsyn is silent, but Zinovy Zinik urges his countrymen to revisit The Gulag Archipelago.

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TOB underway

The 2007 Tournament of Books begins with a face-off between two novels I admire: Half of a Yellow Sun and Absurdistan.

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Where’s the national Junot Díaz Novel Publication Holiday campaign?

Doesn’t it seem like the angels and archangels and all the company of heaven should’ve joined together by now to proclaim that Junot Díaz’s first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will be out this September? But no. It is winter, and so we trudge along with Oprah scandals, Dawkins’ rantings, and editor doocings. Oh, and of course, . . .

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