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Feeling literary and thinking about the election? Just in time, it’s Steve Elliott on Pinky’s Paperhaus. He talks about Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction, which he edited, and…

Chimamanda (Half of a Yellow Sun) Ngozi Adichi is interviewed at The Morning News. John (The Sea) Banville is interviewed at Village (via). Brian (The Open Curtain) Evensen is interviewed…

I’ve just finished the story collection Close Range by Annie Proulx. And can I say, not a moment too soon. A quick tour of her site turns up this nugget:…

If I was in NYC, I’d like to see Neal Pollack on stage tonight; he’s part of the Fresh Meat series at some place called … Comix. Hey – how…

If you cough up the debt to get that MFA, apparently you get a free copy of The Writer’s Chronicle in your mailbox. Sweet. The very fine interview with Jonathan…

Slightly blurry Cathy Day (The Circus in Winter) with Dan Chaon (You Remind Me of Me). On October 18, 2006, at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at the University of…

Salon’s advice columnist, Cary Tennis, is headed for bookshelves. Today he asks readers for their favorites (subscription required, I think). Cary has been good about giving advice that is generally…

So you go to grad school and a good writer — say, Dan Chaon — comes to your class. Of course you bring your camera. One guy brought a tape…

Kiran Desai tried workshopping at Columbia, decided it wasn’t for her (via). Just as she has faltered in accepting American citizenship, she has been unwilling to embrace the American style…

From today’s New York Times: At its heart, ?TITLE REDACTED? is a book about a marriage and the journey through grief that a widow [name redacted] makes after the death…