If I had to sum up Yann Martel’s new novel in one word, it would be “grim,” which is not to deter readers but to prepare them. In scope, if not in length, Beatrice and Virgil rivals Martel’s previous novel, Life of Pi, with its necessary and answerless questions and its cast of bizarre characters.
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Turns out that it wasn’t Al Gore who invented the internet; it was Mark Twain! So argues Crawford Kilian at Tyee Books.
Last Sunday’s New York Times includes an essay by The Echo Maker author Richard Powers on “How to Speak a Book” or why he dictates all his fiction.
Got a book to publicize (or just curious)? Freelance journalist Jen Miller’s helpful “Literary Journalists: How to Get on Their Radar” is one of articles available online from the current issue of Poets & Writers.
If you’re not checking out Semicolon’s weekly Saturday Review of Books, you should. An excellent clearinghouse of reviews by litbloggers during the previous week. I’m discovering some interesting blogs this way, including A Work in Progress and Classical Bookworm.
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