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AYEAR IN READING

Published 34 hours ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

Our favorite of the many annual roundups, The Millions' A Year in Reading , has begun posting and is very much worth your while as we scramble around to prep another Marginalia posting.  Our contribution to A Year in Reading can be found here .
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END OF THE ROAD

Published 2 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

Cormac McCarthy's trusty Olivetti typewriter - which looks awfully familiar - has given up the ghost .  Lately this dependable machine has been showing irrevocable signs of age. So after his friend and colleague John Miller offered to buy him another, Mr. McCarthy agreed to auction ...
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HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY: THE INTERROGATIVE MOOD

Published 9 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

Padgett Powell's latest, The Interrogative Mood , is getting much deserved attention all over the place these days.  (Lamentably, too much comes from reviewers who think it's clever to frame the review in question, mimicking the book's format - it's not, we assure you.)  ...
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MORNING WOOD

Published 10 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

James Wood on the novels of Paul Auster . Although there are things to admire in Auster’s fiction, the prose is never one of them. (Most of the secondhand cadences in my parody—about drinking to drown his sorrows, or the prostitute’s eyes being too hard and having seen too much—are taken ...
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WEDNESDAY MARGINALIA - THE HIT & RUN EDITION

Published 15 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

We are so behind and the interesting stuff keeps piling up, so here we go, down and dirty for your consumption: Check out the newly launched The Nervous Breakdown and the latest installment of The Critical Flame ... Floyd Skloot considers the new Brad Leithauser novel ... Philip Roth's dreadful ...
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GO!

Published 16 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

Geoff Dyer's Brooklyn Library appearance has just been added to the Events sidebar.  Get thee hence!
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JB ON VN

Published 17 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

Whilst we prep a large-ish Marginalia post, you'll want to cozy up with John Banville on Nabokov in the latest Bookforum : Aptly, we may begin with the title. The dust jacket has it as The Original of Laura: A novel in fragments , while the title page varies this to The Original of Laura ...
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GUEST INTERVIEW: MICHELLE HUNEVEN

Published 21 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

GUEST INTERVIEW BY DANIEL A. OLIVAS Michelle Huneven is the author of three novels including her most recent, Blame (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which has already garnered raves including a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. Her nonfiction writings include restaurant reviews for the ...
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TO GOTHAM

Published 25 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

Making a quick run back to New York to attend the Center for Fiction's Benefit and Awards Dinner  so updates here are likely to resume Wednesday.  Until then, bidding is still open on the Amoco Yo-Yo ...
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L.A. EVENT - VERMIN ON THE MOUNT

Published 27 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

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HOW THEY WRITE

Published 27 days ago by TEV at The Elegant Variation

Pamuk, Baker, Atwood, Ishiguro and others on how they write . Booker-prize winner Michael Ondaatje's preferred medium is 8½-by-11-inch Muji brand lined notebooks. He completes the first three or four drafts by hand, sometimes literally cutting and pasting passages and whole chapters with ...
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SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS
marksarvas.blogs.com - 28 days ago
SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS
— marksarvas.blogs.com —   I was recently invited to participate in the “ Significant Objects ” art project, joining the... likes of Christopher Sorrentino, Ed Park, Maud Newton, Colson Whitehead and Nicholson Baker. Short version is they send a bunch of writers a random ... (more) SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS

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