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more about #fiction more comments → Perhaps Not: Dude, EVERY year is the year of Alice Munro. more » BestEuphemismEver: Can I get a ZZ Packer shout out? P.S. ZZ, write! more » NellMood: Oh, I love the short story. Some of my other favorite short story writers are Flannery O'Conner (of course), Annie Proulx, Maile Meloy, Mary Gaitskill... more » Mary McCarthyite: Other great short story writers: (ahem) Mary McCarthy; Jean Stafford; Flannery O'Connor; Caroline Gordon. Now we have an even 12 on the list! more » Ratinski: Alice Munro is quite possibly my favorite author, living or dead. Of all the piles of books littering my apartment, her anthologies are the ones I go ... more » MIXED: Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is AMAZING. Like, so so so so good. more » Scout: I'm way behind the curve. The spine of White Teeth is visible in my bookcase - I've never read it - is it absolutely worth reading or something I ca... more » judgingamy: I love Smith's White Teeth. She is a beautiful writer. I've struggled getting through On Beauty too, even though it has some pretty great lines every ... more » Diziet_Sma: I can't stand the way she writes, it's so pompous. more » badmutha: She does sound like a very smart, well read person. It is funny that she talked about her feelings in Hurston's novel because I had those similar feel... more » emfish55: "It also provides a corrective to the opposite but equally restrictive notions that we can only enjoy books whose writers we identify with culturally,... more » PilgrimSoul: Oh gosh, Anna, I couldn't disagree more. I liked Smith a lot more before she appointed herself as some kind of philosopher of the novel - I mean that... more » meritxell: an erotic life: Just, for the love of all that is holy, do not have anybody involved LITERALLY bite a pillow. I'm glaring at you, Smeyer. more » cand86: I dunno, ya'll . . . if you go over to Fleshbot, sitting right there is the description "There is still something deeply sexy about watching a freshly... more » Tchotchke: This is probably the perfect time to mention that I am currently reading "Tropic of Cancer." more » -
#shortbutsweet
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Writing
Is 2009 the year of the female short story writer? Maybe, but some of the literary lionesses on this list have been at it a long time. We'd add Amy Hempel and Lydia Davis to make an even eight. [Guardian] -
#bookreviews
Changing My Mind: On Fiction, Race, And How 50 Cent Is Like Samuel Beckett
Zadie Smith established herself as a literary wunderkind when she published White Teeth at the age of 25. Her collection of essays on topics ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to 50 Cent shows she's grown into something more.
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#lustlit
Vagina Masks, Four-Handed Women, And The Pitfalls Of Sex Writing
The nominees for The Literary Review's 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Awards are in, leading critics to opine about why it's so hard to write about boning. More » -
#revolutionaryread
Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
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] -
#scarytales
Radishes, Mermaids, And Shot-Putters: The Lessons Of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales have been much analyzed in the past thirty years or so, and Holly Tucker's list of five books on the subject offers every interpretation from feminist to Freudian. But as a devotee myself, I have my own ideas. More » -
#sexviolence
Believe The Hype: Antichrist Nearly Unwatchable
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#literarylights
Nine Female Authors Finalists For National Book Awards
Two women — Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of American Salvage, and Jayne Ann Phillips, who wrote Lark and Termite — are finalists for the National Book Award in Fiction. Across all categories, nine of the twenty finalists are female. [Mediabistro] -
#bookreviews
Prospect Park West: In Park Slope, Hell Is Other Parents
In the much-ballyhooed Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn welcomes her readers to Park Slope, where the women are mean, the men are asexual, and all the children wear kneepads.
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#metafiction
Books Selling Books: Today's Bestsellers Hawk Yesterday's Classics
Twilight fans are apparently driving up sales of Wuthering Heights — Edward and Bella's favorite book. This led us to wonder what other classic books could be endorsed by contemporary bestsellers. More » -
#onrudeness
"You Have To Be Willing To Have Only Four Friends": Lorrie Moore On Writing
In a profile in this month's Elle, author Lorrie Moore talks about her upcoming novel and why being an artist is kind of "creepy." More » -
#chicklitcrit
Is "New Chick Lit" Just A Different Kind Of Obnoxious?
The interwebs are abuzz this week with news of a shift in chick lit from Shopaholic-style conspicuous consumption to more recession-appropriate storylines. But is this "new chick lit" just more of the same, dressed up in slightly cheaper clothes? More » -
#liarliar
"Whitewashed" Book Gets A New Cover
Justine Larbalestier's Liar, whose original white cover image didn't match its black protagonist, is getting a new jacket. The publisher is sorry the old cover was "interpreted by some as a calculated decision to mask the character's ethnicity." [Independent] -
#encouragingwords
Virgin Suicides Writer Contemplates Book's Sixteenth Anniversary
"I was a virtually unpublished writer just playing around. [...] My writing was a private exercise to please myself." — Jeffrey Eugenides, on The Virgin Suicides, now one of Picador's top-selling reissues [Daily Beast] -
#sexytime
Two Writers Make Sex After Forty Sound Pretty Good
Two new books — Kate Christensen's Trouble and Gloria Vanderbilt's Obsession: An Erotic Tale — handily refute claims that women can't write about sex, or that age is an impediment to eroticism. More » -
#chicklitcrit
Blogger Asks, What Is Women's Fiction?
Blogger Barbara Vey recently polled a variety of people on a potentially controversial question: "What is women's fiction?" More » -
#womenbehavingawesomely
"I've Never Played By The Women's Rules": British Author And Iconoclast Martina Cole
To say that bestselling British crime author Martina Cole has "balls" (as one colleague does) doesn't do justice to this iconoclastic woman, who prefers piloting her speedboat and writing about killing people with apple corers to chasing after men. More » -
#dickensmeetdarwin
Do Books Help Us Evolve? And Should We Care?
It's become fashionable lately to examine the evolutionary purpose of art. Salon's review of a book called On the Origin of Stories gives this practice a much-needed critique. More » -
#loveisintheair
Romance Novels For A Free Society!
Changing the face of the world, one pulsating manhood at a time. More » -
#girltalk
Are Teen Girls Really That Fragile?
Today the New York Times asks: does this YA novel about eating disorders serve as an E.D. primer? More »
