[lastnightsreading]

Colm Toibin at the New Yorker Festival, 10/4/13

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ICYMI - Colm Tóibín was the subject of a brilliant BBC One Imagine documentary this week. It's here to watch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04tm5gt 

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Beautiful -- poetry made by 'erasing' words from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, by Jenni B. Baker, courtesy of Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenni-b-baker/infinite-jest-poems_b_5649031.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000031

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Love these rejected cover designs for the US edition of Lydia Davis's short story collection, Can't and Won't

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/cant-and-wont-lydia-davis_n_5648702.html

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Bursting with pride that Joshua Ferris and Ali Smith's wonderful novels have been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.  Keeping everything crossed for the shortlist... 

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Our friends at Creative Review have interviewed Luke Pearson, über cool comic book artist and illustrator.  He is also the designer of the new Mortdecai novels, dontcha know?

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Uh, YEAH IT IS: the new, new Dave Eggers novel, just landed!

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If pop songs were works of fiction

This @buzzfeeduk​ link had us all a-titter

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JUST IN: very smart finished copies of Munich Airport.  Soft matt lam, nice.

We're in a bank holiday mood. Fancy winning a copy?  Follow us and reblog by Tuesday 27 May 2014, 9.30am

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Stop press: Daniel Radcliffe set to star in big screen adaptation of You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

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"If eating people is wrong, I don't want to be right"

Gary Shteyngart comes out of retirement to blurb the world's worst books...

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On until 28 June: an exhibition of David Pearson's book cover designs, at the Kemistry Gallery. Be there or be oh, you know the rest

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SPOTTED: Penguin on the loose in Shoreditch

Taken by @mattclacher, he's well hipster innit

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We're sold on this exhibition: still time to see the art of the paperback covers in Britain from the 1960s & 70s, which sounds really geeky but you know it's not.

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Uh, HELLO.  Brand new finished copies of Joshua Ferris' To Rise Again at a Decent Hour and Emma Healey's Elizabeth is Missing.  Check out the spine and endpaper action.

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An Open Letter from Gary Shteyngart : The New Yorker

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The Infatuations. Out now in paperback.

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More wisdom from High Fidelity to celebrate Record Store Day. We hope you had a good one!