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It rained the evening of November’s meeting of the Melville House Book Club, and I don’t think a single one of us thought to bring along an umbrella. I certainly didn’t. Some of us may have even forgotten to wear shoes. Others,…
For those who missed it, here’s a quick recap of November’s book group discussion of The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes. Spoiler: it was a really good time.
On December 17th, we’ll talk Bartleby, that audacious and infamous scrivener. Join us?
RSVP here.
Today in things-you-shouldn't-have-to-tell-an-author: If you get a bad review, the best course of action is to take out a bottle of wine, open the bottle of wine, drink the bottle of wine. The best response to a negative review is, under no circumstances, to…
DO: drink a bottle of wine from time to time
DO NOT: assault a person who gave your novel a negative review with a bottle of wine.
Simple.
We’re publishing Kirk Lynn’s brilliant debut novel, Rules for Werewolves, in only two short weeks, but we didn’t want to wait until publication to share this interview with the man itself. I asked Kirk a series of pretty conventional—even unanswerable—questions…
Author Kirk Lynn, whose debut Rules for Werewolves arrives in just two weeks, sat down with Melville House senior editor Mark Krotov for a conversation about the suburbs, writing a novel in dialogue, winning even when you’re wrong, and much more.
You can pre-order Rules for Werewolves here.
SQUEEEEEEEE! :)
Manga madness
Moby Lives picked up on a story I've been following for Q&Q about Canada customs stopping artists and consumers of explicit manga and violent comic books. They ask wisely: At what age can a cartoon legally have sex?