Genre: Not Genre-Specific

Saul Bellow's False Friend, #JonathanFranzenHates, and More

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Evan Smith Rakoff
3.6.12

Evan Hughes writes of the friendship between Saul Bellow and Jack Ludwig, and the betrayal that resulted in an award-winning novel; the Guardian examines the growing popularity of erotica among women writers; author Darin Strauss weighs The Sopranos against Six Feet Under; and other news.

Remembering Louis Reyes Rivera, Tibetan Poet Under House Arrest, and More

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Evan Smith Rakoff
3.5.12

Tibetan poet Tsering Woeser was prevented by Chinese police from attending an awards ceremony in her honor in Beijing, and is now under house arrest; Slate has launched a monthly book review; an opera based on Ann Patchett's novel Bel Canto has been commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago, and other news.

Literary Hoop Dreams

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Kevin Taylor
2.29.12

Sherman Alexie, winner of the other NBA, along with other poets and writers, shows off his jump shot in HooPalousa, a basketball tournament-cum-fund-raiser that aims to help create an endowment at the University of Idaho for a Native American MFA candidate.

Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin

With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues and Adam Levin’s Hot Pink, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.

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VIDA's 2011 Count, Alexander Chee's iPad, and More

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Evan Smith Rakoff
2.29.12

Publication statistics for 2011 have been compiled and released by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts; the Paris Review Daily looks at the twenty-five year friendship between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson; Filmmaker Scott Teems remembers his friend and collaborator, the novelist William Gay; and other news.

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