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Haslett v. Wolff: a PEN/Malamud literary smackdown

December 11, 2006

Sean Carman, our Washington, D.C. correspondent, sends this report.   Last Friday the PEN/Faulkner Foundation gave the Bernard Malamud Award for the short story to Tobias Wolff and Adam Haslett. The event, arranged as a polite ceremony to honor the art of the short story, turned into pure literary smackdown, with two masters reading from unpublished manuscripts on the empty . . .

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The Smart Set: Lauren Cerand’s weekly events

December 11, 2006

The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled by Lauren Cerand, that usually appears Mondays at 12:30pm and highlights the best of the week to come. Special favor is given to New York’s independent booksellers and venues, and low-cost and free events. Please send details to lauren [at] maudnewton.com by the Thursday prior to publication, with the event’s date in . . .

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December 11, 2006

“The Lord placed a vision on our hearts of a skaters’ Bible.”

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December 11, 2006

Outgoing Granta editor Ian Jack talks with the Independent.

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December 9, 2006

The film based on Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal is receiving early raves and lashings. (I recently interviewed Heller about the adaptation.)

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