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Frontlist submissions

Anyone can submit fiction to The Frontlist. Highly-ranked stories are read by an editor or agent. The system is like Zoetrope’s, except Frontlist is mostly genre so far.

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A book is not forever

“Hello, Grisham — So Long, Hemingway?” Libraries cull their stacks, and I’m staying out of it this time; angry librarians scare me. (See also.)

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2006 books — and a New Year discussion

My year-end books piece for Newsday ran over the weekend. Supplementing it here, in 2007, seems fitting, since two of the novels I admired — Calvin Baker’s Dominion and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt — have inspired me to set up a public discussion between the authors this spring. The topic will be names/branding and freedom in the market . . .

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