Some postmodern fun: a novel told entirely in the second person. I’m hearing echoes of “Upon a Winter’s Night a Traveler…”
I like what Harper Perennial is doing with their fifty-two stories site that publishes a new short story weekly — it’s all a build-up to the summer, when they’re releasing six new short story titles. Around here, anything is welcome that celebrates the form.
The man hasn’t been dead but a week, and already we’re seeing the Roth-Was-So-Much-Better arguments rolled out (but rather unsubstantiated, I have to say — I’d like a bit more evidence and less rant).
Borders cuts every employee still working for them. But this is just what we need in the book industry, right? More consolidation? So next to fall will be Barnes and Noble, and then Amazon will be all that’s left. (via Moby Lives)
Canada’s “Literary Sandbox“: the literary scene on the ground up north.
Maud Newton gives love to Narrative Magazine (and interviews Tom Jenks!)
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Thanks for pointing me to the 52 stories site, the more stories the better!