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From the monthly archives: February 2009

Even Sontag Was 13 Years Old Once

On February 23, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Conversation: Princeton

On February 23, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Vol. 1 Brooklyn Story Series, Feb. 2009

On February 18, 2009 By Jason Diamond

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Vol. 1 Feb 20th, 2009
“Ex-Lovers”

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Kimberlee Auerbach is a performer, teacher and author of The Devil, The Lovers & Me: My Life In Tarot (Dutton 8/07). Her one-woman show, which inspired her memoir, played to sold-out houses in NYC. She teaches memoir writing at Mediabistro, creative writing at Gotham Writers Workshop and counsels 8th grade girls at Liberty LEADS at Bank Street College of Education.

John Wray was recently named one of the twenty best [...]
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The Fatwa’s Forgotten

On February 17, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

This past Saturday marked, besides St. Hallmark’s Day, the 20th anniversary of the Rushdie affair during which Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued the most famous modern-day literary death sentence, a fatwa upon the head of British writer Salman Rushdie for his allegedly blasphemous novel The Satanic Verses. Khomeini’s issuance of the fatwa was a turning point for the Western world in terms of free speech and the possible impact of art derived from post-colonial democracies. The order for the life of Rushdie and all involved in his work infused, or rather re-infused, the literary world with excitement and fear [...]
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Wendy at 23 by Brendan Garbee

On February 16, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Before she met Daniel, Wendy was submerged in the same thinking as all the other young people around her in Oakland, a way of thinking that claimed sexual encounters could be free of attachments and of entanglements. And so if she met a boy she thought was attractive, or funny, or interesting, she would not let a sense of propriety keep her from taking him to bed. She had been a virgin all the way through high school, afraid of sex the way some young women are, and in college she had dated only two boys, one after the other. [...]
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The Arrival of Kindle 2.0

On February 13, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

The digital age of literature is being hurled at us with momentous force. Within two weeks, Washington Post’s Book World book review went online-only and a new, significantly improved, Amazon Kindle was unveiled yesterday. According to Business Week , Kindle 2.0 is aimed at students. Seeing as it is 25% thinner than the iPhone and far sleeker than the previous model, I imagine the temptation of slipping one of these into your backpack in place of the seriously sizable “Anthology of Literary Theory” which currently sits, unopened, beside the kid next to me at this café.

Literary purists [...]
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Pride, Prejudice, and Satire

On February 9, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

I first got word of Seth Grahame-Smith’s upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by way of the zombie horror genre “with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action” a few weeks ago. I squinted my eyes, considering. Ultimately, I ignored it, I moved on. But since blog posts and news articles about this novel have been relentlessly appearing in my Google Reader, it seems others are not doing the same.
So, a zombie monster adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice? Is this literary sacrilege? Unlike my mother who rereads the [...]
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