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Did You Hear? Does Not Feel
Did You Hear? Does Not Feel
Last week, Roy Ira Moats and the Moats Dogs dropped their debut album “All Packed Up.”It was literally a moment 50 years in the making. Roy Moats, the songwriter who has spent the last few years building a presence on the local music scene in Southeastern Virginia, is 71. He has been playing and writing, and planning to make an…
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Fiction Advocate of the Day: Science
Fiction Advocate of the Day: Science
Everyone knows that readers of literary fiction are more emotionally intelligent. This explains the widespread social popularity of people who spend their time buried in 800-page experimental novels. You can see it in our ascent in the professional world, as well as in the consistent marital bliss of those who read literary fiction and, especially, those who write it. Thankfully, science has come…
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The Boomstick Film Club: Welcome to the Punch
The Boomstick Film Club: Welcome to the Punch
Watch it with us: Netflix streaming One of my favorite movies in terms of sheer rewatchability is The Fugitive. Anything that involves a cop and a criminal (innocent or otherwise) joining forces to fight a common enemy is my catnip. The Netflix description of Welcome to the Punch (2013) promises just that, plus James McAvoy and Mark Strong, so I was all in. McAvoy plays the cop, Lewinsky, and…
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Napoleon's Other Waterloo
Napoleon’s Other Waterloo
The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo is coming up on June 18. If you are a history buff, and you want to understand this momentous occasion a little better, there are plenty of books to choose from. If you are a fiction buff, there is only one: The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys, first published in French in 1986 and newly reissued by NYRB Classics in a translation by Patricia Cleary.…
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Great Moments from the Sunday Book Review
David Gilbert’s opening line in his review of Aleksandar Hemon’s The Making of the Zombie Wars: The Summer of Love rolled into town and left behind an S.T.D. otherwise known as 1968. Read the rest of the review at the New York Times online. David Gilbert is the author of & Sons, which we reviewed (with fewer great lines).
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5 Questions for Angela Readman
5 Questions for Angela Readman
“I cut my boyfriend in half” are the first words in Angela Readman’s debut collection of stories. From there it only gets weirder. In “There’s a Woman Works Down the Chip Shop,” a mother turns—inexplicably—into Elvis. A girl helps her father with bizarre taxidermy in order to save the family in “The Keeper of the Jackalopes.” Don’t Try This at Home includes the story that landed Angela Readman on…
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The Beauty and the Horror
The Beauty and the Horror
There’s a song on the radio, and so quickly it burrows in, all the way in, the low notes and high notes. They are strumming along to some innate rhythm in your brain, or maybe your heart, but you don’t mind. You love this song, like a companion, a best friend, murmuring right along with the swish of your blood, the inhale and exhale of your breath. It makes you happier to be singing this song,…
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A Crackpot Romantic
Edgar Allen Poe’s early mystery stories are the direct inspiration for The Black Cat by J.M. Geever, a novel that Fiction Advocate is proud to publish. They are also the direct inspiration for the world’s most famous sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. In his new book, The Great Detective, Zach Dundas offers a popular history of Sherlock Holmes, beginning with this origin story about Edgar Allan Poe. “With…
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His book isn’t even on sale in the United States yet, and already Kamel Daoud has been the subject of breathless coverage in The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine. A Salafist imam in Algeria issued a fatwa against him on Facebook. He narrowly lost the Prix Goncourt—France’s top literary prize—by only two votes. A movie adaption is slated for 2017. So if…
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A Stranger in My Own Country by Hans Fallada
A Stranger in My Own Country by Hans Fallada
Is there an ethical voice in German literature in the 1930s? Among the Oscar nominees this year (which included no shortage of Nazi tales, including Fury and The Imitation Game) Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel serves as Hollywood’s sweeping take on “fascism, Nazism, prison, uplift.” His whimsical anti-fascist flick is solemnly dedicated to the work of novelist Stefan Zweig, who fled the rise…
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The Beginning of The End of the Tour
Watch the first preview for “The End of the Tour,” starring Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace… …then tell us what you think.
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The Boomstick Film Club: Crocodile Dundee II
The Boomstick Film Club: Crocodile Dundee II
Watch it with us: Netflix streaming If I could review this movie using one of its lines, it would be the one where Mick Dundee makes the paste of berries and gives it to Sue to smell and she recoils and says “Ugh! It stinks!” What a turd this movie is. Here’s what happens: Sue’s photojournalist ex-husband is in Colombia trying to get intel on a drug cartel. He takes a photo of a drug lord…
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Gender in Cold Worlds
Gender in Cold Worlds
I first read Ursula LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness in eighth grade, and though for the years following I called it one of my favorite books, I couldn’t have given a very solid account of the story or its meaning. I learned the word “envoy,” and the next few stories I would write, in pencil on lined notebook paper, featured alien envoys navigating a stubborn planet. I didn’t know enough about…
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Non-Fiction by Non-Men: Andie Tucher
Non-Fiction by Non-Men: Andie Tucher
In the second installment of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels converses with historian and journalist Andie Tucher.
Andie Tucher is the author of Happily Sometimes After: Discovering Stories From Twelve Generations of an American Family and Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium, which was the winner of the…
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Mislaid by Nell Zink
Mislaid by Nell Zink
Nell Zink’s newest novel, Mislaid, has the official Jonathan Franzen seal of approval. The front cover blurb indicates that Franzen sees Zink as “A writer of extraordinary talent and range.” This is true, yet my dominant thought as I read the book was not “here is talent, here is range, here is writing at its best,” but rather, “this book is going to piss a lot of people off and I’m not sure…
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The End is Nigh
The End is Nigh
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In this section––the penultimate for our purposes!–two things of philosophical importance happen. Well, two things that we will discuss, as doubtless loads happen, but we can’t examine each one of them for fear of exhausting the ever-dwindling attention span of the modern day reader (whose diet consists mostly of blog posts). Let’s jump right in, shall we?
“So let’s talk…
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A Cartography of Carcasses Given that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has the name of someone you would run into in Braavos, it's a wonder that it took so long for someone to do this: A Google map of the Seven Kingdoms.