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Falling man

Don DeLillo’s “Still-Life,” evidently an excerpt from his forthcoming September 11 novel, appears in this week’s New Yorker.

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Every Harper’s ever published

The relaunched Harper’s site offers subscribers full access to every issue of the magazine published in its 157-year history. Looks like I do have that 17 bucks, after all.

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R.I.P. Driss Chraibi

Moroccan author Driss Chraibi — “the first writer I read as a child who created Moroccan characters that were believable,” Laila Lalami tells the IHT — has died at 80.

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Junot Díaz on writing while teaching, and more

Let us all pause and offer a moment of silence to Lauren, who parted with the new issue of Dirtypop so that I could bring you these excerpts from a fascinating 5-page interview with Junot Díaz. On the logistics of balancing writing with teaching (at MIT), he tells interviewer Dulce Mateo: I can barely write while I’m teaching but I . . .

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