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>There’s a new issue of The Short Review up and it is, again, filled with fine discussions of short story collections. This month there…

>It’s been a strange 24 hours. Last night at about this time I was working on something–oh, yeah, trying to download student essays to…

>I only made it to one panel today at the Virginia Festival of the Book despite having several events circled on my schedule. It…

>I thought the first Pat Conroy book was pretty good. After that, it felt like he was telling the same story over and over…

>This is the week of the excellent Virginia Festival of the Book or, as we call it around here, VaBook. It starts Wednesday morning,…

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>The Tournament of Books continues: Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country edges E. Lockhart’s Disreputable History. No surprise there. In something of an upset, though, Tom…

>Not only is it Small Press Month, it’s also Love Your Indie Month, and to celebrate, Joe Hill is running the Love Your Indie…

>Or so says Benjamin Alsup in the new issue of Esquire about Colson Whitehead. The book he’s writing about is Sag Harbor, Whitehead’s new…

>The Tournament of Books continues. Today is Round 3: The White Tiger vs. Harry, Revised. The winner: Harry, Revised. In Round 2, Netherland was…