The Literary Saloon chronicles how a bureaucratic error of Kafkaesque proportions in Iran led to the accidental publishing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s latest novel – Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Usually, Iran bans that sort of thing, and on the second time around, they did. Memories of My Melancholy Whores was one of those novels that I initially disliked, but over the year since I’ve read it, it’s grown on me – or, more specifically, the metaphors at the core of it have become clearer, helping me to understand the book better. If you don’t live in Iran, you should give it a read.
Ed and his cohorts focused a formidable array of technology upon the National Book Awards, including video, podcasting, and minute-by-minute written updates. As I predicted, Denis Johnson won for Tree of Smoke.
I received my copy of Judith Freeman’s The Long Embrace. I am happy. I am reading.
Why Norman Mailer failed to write the Great American Novel (GAN).
Howard Junker at the ZYZZYVA blog surveys Facebook to find fresh new writers, and what grate skillz dey haave!
