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Caitlin Flanagan & The New Yorker: did she quit, or was she pushed? Regardless, we’ll soon be plagued with publicity for a book starring her Girl Gone Wild action figure. (Via.)

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Poet Paul Muldoon‘s band, Rackett, plays Joe’s Pub tonight (11/21). I’m curious. (Thanks, David.)

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How much do Pynchon and other postmodern writers owe George Eliot’s Middlemarch?

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Robert Altman, whose cinematic feats include adaptations of Raymonds Chandler and Carver, died today at 81. (Via.)

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Daniel Kehlmann has won the Kleist-Preis for Measuring the World, an entertaining book recently translated into English and published in the States. (Via.)

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