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High Hat #8

For The High Hat’s “First Loves” issue, Chris Lanier interviews Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf, Leonard Pierce revisits Pynchon, and David Nordstrom considers Wodehouse, “the old unreliable.”

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Magical Thinking ticket discount

Poets & Writers is offering a discount on tickets to Joan Didion’s new play, The Year of Magical Thinking. You can hear the author and actress Vanessa Redgrave discussing the show at NPR.

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Pamuk flees to the States

As Turkey debates its speech crime laws, Orhan Pamuk flees to the U.S. in fear for his life (or, as some would have it, Pamuk runs away).

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The Canadian Patient

“Most Americans probably think Michael Ondaatje is British (try selling ‘The Canadian Patient’).” Why are U.S. readers blind to Canadian fiction?

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