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Jennifer Egan just won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad. She is a woman. In an interview, she said some things about other women. Which can only mean one thing: catfight! More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5794395&view=rss&microfeed=true Jennifer Egan has won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her excellent novel A Visit From The Goon Squad. That's the second big award for her this year — maybe now maybe she can get her own picture in the paper. More »
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Jezebel writer Anna North's debut novel America Pacifica comes out May 18, but you can win a free advance copy ahead of time, plus one of these awesome jellyfish rings. More »
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Accomplished novelist Jennifer Egan won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her fascinating, innovative book A Visit From the Goon Squad. But one newspaper seemed more concerned with who didn't win: namely, Jonathan Franzen. More »
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Over a year ago, author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez optioned the TV rights to her bestselling novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club. Christmas eve, Valdes-Rodriguez called the TV project racist on her blog. For Christmas she got a cease and desist letter. More »
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Penguin Press has bought Sapphire's sequel to Push and plans to release the novel next summer. The Kid focuses on Precious' son "as he approaches manhood - alone, brutalized and with the soul of an artist." More »
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Much of the past decade's popular young adult literature geared towards teen girls reads like a PG-13 version of Sex and the City. But Nini Simone's characters deal with crack-addicted mothers, runaway siblings, and teen pregnancy. More »
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Stieg Larsson's brother says that days before his death, Stieg said he'd "nearly finished" another Girl With The Dragon Tattoo book. However, the family says they won't let the novel, intended as the fifth in the series, to be published. More »
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Martin Amis says he's written "a very feminist book" based on his sister, who was "pathologically promiscuous" and "one of the most spectacular victims of the [sexual] revolution." He adds, "It would have needed the Taliban to protect her." [Guardian] More »
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Sydney Zamora is a brash, calculating and unrepentant heroine who is quick to drop a suitor and curse him out as she extracts herself from the date. Is she the new prototype for chick lit characters? More »
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It's on! Who is the most loathesome, arrogant, sadistic, chauvinistic hero in the whole canon of early-80s romance, that hot-bed of appalling manhood? For out first contestant, we have a rapey, manipulative former footballer with a will of iron! More »
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If you haven't read any Sarah Waters? Lady, are you in for a page-turning, spine-tingling, word-smithing, sexy treat! Four words: lesbian historical ghost stories. More »
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Someone wrote into the Wall Street Journal to ask if Cynthia Grossen could recommend another fictional hero as swoony as Twilight's pallid Edward Cullen. Grossen gives some picks, but we think we can add to it. More »
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Dana Washington, the mother of a student at Washington High School in Kansas City, KS, told school officials that she wants John Steinbeck's classic novel, Of Mice And Men, removed from the required reading list of books for schoolchildren. Washington objects to the "violent" and "profuse" use of the n-word in the book. What's next? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? To Kill A Mockingbird? Heart of Darkness? A school official says that although it wasn't a "pleasant part of our history," students still need to learn about it to "move forward in society." [UPI] More »
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