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We Want You To Win Some Emma Straub

On February 16, 2012 By Jason Diamond

Afternoon Bites: Hanksy Speaks! Chabon on comics! Straub on Walhberg! and more.

On February 9, 2012 By Tobias Carroll

Afternoon Bites: Carl Wilson’s 2011, Emma Straub makes a mix, Justin Davidson on Philip Glass, and more

On February 2, 2012 By Tobias Carroll

Afternoon Bites: Patton Oswalt chats with Harlan Ellison, Disco Inferno is reissued, heiresses get literary, and more

On January 24, 2012 By Tobias Carroll

Your favorite television characters as lit bloggers

On January 11, 2012 By Jason Diamond

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Pretty simple formula: your favorite television characters imagined as people who sit behind their laptops and blog about books.
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A year of favorites: Jason’s 2011 Best Of list

On December 15, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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I’ve written and read my share of year-end lists, and I’m at the point now where I’m not totally sure what sort of purpose they serve, but I continue to read and write them anyway. I’m not trying to sound jaded about peoples roundups of the year that was, in fact I rather like them and really enjoy doing my own. I guess my issue tends to be more of the way you’ve got to dig deep for the Best Of lists that challenge me to revisit something I may have missed in the [...]
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Morning Bites: Another American Psycho, Sara Levine’s music, Unpopular Proverbs, and more

On December 9, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Another American Psycho film? Seriously? Is that really necessary? Is Bret Easton Ellis hard up for cash or something?
Emma Straub on Amazon kicking bookstores while they’re down. Sara Levine talks to Largehearted Boy about the songs that helped inspire her book Treasure Island!!! Slate doesn’t seem to like the trailer for the movie adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Teddy Wayne lists another unpopular proverb at McSweeney’s. Greil Marcus really wants you to know that The Doors still matter. JEFF The Brotherhood plays NPR.
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Morning Bites: Detroit pictures, Eisenberg’s year, Grossman’s picks, DeLillo rips an ollie, and more

On December 8, 2011 By Jason Diamond

The Detroit News on Julia Reyes Taubman’s photobook Detroit: 138 Square Miles
If you’re looking to read one piece on skateboarding that has a Don DeLillo quote, The Classical has got you covered. Two of our favorites, Deborah Eisenberg and Emma Straub, tell us about their year in reading at The Millions. Vogue picks their best books of 2011. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News: Meh or pretty okay? The books that Lev Grossman is looking forward to in 2012. Pictures from a Pop Up Flea. Singer Dobie Gray has passed away.
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