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From a tragicomedy from Iraq to a razor-sharp take on being a mistress, from Sweden, 5 great books you may have overlooked last month.

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Katie Kitamura on Ambition, Morality, and Writing Ugly

Katie Kitamura seems to live the dream: Her previous novels, Gone to the Forest and The Longshot were both recipients of awards. She’s won a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship and published fic…

BP: I love what you’ve said about the best novels often containing awkward prose. Sometimes a bad sentence can say more than a perfect paragraph—could you elaborate?

KK: I believe in really getting into the muck of writing, getting waist deep in it. I completely understand beautifully written pull quotes, but I do find them slightly puzzling; in a way style becomes less and less interesting to me as I read and write. A series of perfectly executed metaphors is fine, but not at the heart of what I look for in a piece of writing. One reason I’m suspicious of that perfectly executed prose style is that I feel it can become a tic and a way of avoiding the heart of what you’re really trying to say. You can find yourself relying on little linguistic tricks. For me, that was becoming a way of avoiding the complexities I wanted to succeed in presenting. If it’s messy it’s fine, if it’s ugly it’s fine, as long as what I’m expressing is what I want to express.

A SEPARATION is in stores TODAY!!!

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🎧 New "MISSING PAGES" Podcast Episode with Bethanne Patrick

If you’re anything like me, you may have an unhealthy obsession with following book industry drama. Anything from authors falling from grace to publishers getting greedy keeps me glued to social media. And if there’s a name-and-shame game involved … well, let’s just say, I pop some popcorn and get super comfy to watch the drama unfold. Enter Missing Pages to satiate my desire to know all about…

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“They can be literature in and of themselves—and that’s the thread I think we’ve all dropped in the past couple of decades, that book reviews and book criticism and critical analysis are not just part of the publishing-industry editorial to PR to marketing to sales flow chart; they’re part of our overall cultural conversation, part of what ties all kinds of literature to other areas of research, endeavor, and creation. It’s a conversation, not a funnel; a debate, not a neatly packaged web page.”

Bethanne Patrick writes about Jessa Crispin’s criticisms of the publishing industry, careerism, and finding a place for positive reviews in the world of literary criticism.

(via I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing | Literary Hub)

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I have the advantage of feminism having happened, and feminists can reclaim Margaret Cavendish. I decided I wanted to find Margaret for myself.

Margaret The First, A Novel And An Obsession | Literary Hub

Danielle Dutton and Bethanne Patrick discuss ambition, marriage, and finding Margaret Cavendish’s voice.

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One of the first things I heard was: “How well did you know her?” How well did I know her? I saw her in person at three lunches with groups and one-on-one at a few brunches, and 18 months ago I traveled to her home so we could go out to dinner. Many others knew her better. But I feel our bond was genuine. I know that the query itself is almost always benign. People want to assess how sad you are, whether a grief is largely theoretical, or based on deep knowledge. But how can they assess this if I can’t even begin to do so? The world of online friendship allows each mourner to create her own museum of memories: For one person, it might be a single line; another, a score of photographs. It’s all at once weird and inclusive and isolating, and little of it lives up to any real-world measurements of loss. One person shares a close up, but knew my friend superficially. Another writes a few words that sound formulaic, but knew my friend better than most of her family members did.

Bethanne Patrick on grief for online friends

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[Notícias] Site lista 35 autores para se seguir nas redes sociais

[Notícias] Site lista 35 autores para se seguir nas redes sociais @realjohngreen

Para nós que amamos literatura é comum seguirmos nossos autores preferidos no Twitter, Instagram e afins no caso de eles terem. Em alguns casos, nós não sabemos que eles usam esse tipo de interação com os leitores.

O site Flavorwirelistou 35 escritores para se seguir nas redes sociais. A grande maioria não é conhecida do grande público no Brasil, mas podemos destacar dois da lista: John Green e…

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