Category Archives: LBC

Every season, turn turn turn

At the LBC, nominated author Mark Binelli (Sacco & Vanzetti Must Die!) is posting some thoughts on writing in today’s marketplace. He starts with a quote from Ian Jack, the…

Read this! LBC announces spring pick

The LitBlog Coop announces its spring 2007 Read This! pick today: Alan DeNiro’s debut short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead. I was the nominator, so…

New nominees at the LBC

For the first time I got to nominate a book for the LBC. Which one is it? Maybe you can guess. The three spring nominees are now online at the…

Wizard further ado

It would be remiss of me not to point to this brand new podcast interview with Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, author of Wizard of the Crow, the LitBlog Coop’s latest Read…

LBC podcast: Stephen Graham Jones

How better than a podacst interview to peek behind the scary curtain of Stephen Graham Jones‘ Demon Theory? Don’t be afraid. He’s really quite congenial. Although he does tell a…

Ew, that’s excellent

I’ve got class in 53 minutes and am sitting not so far from 50 or more undergraduates, so I’ve got the iPod cranked. I’m getting some writing done (other than…

Jonesing at the LBC

Don’t miss Stephen Graham Jones week at the LBC. Today Jones, author of the nominated book Demon Theory, answers some questions from our own Dan Wickett. Lots of things are…

LBC podcast: Valerie Trueblood & Anne Fernald

Get a look (listen?) inside Valerie Trueblood’s book Seven Loves, with a lovely intro from our nominator Anne Fernald. Seven Loves was one of the finalists for the LBC’s first…

A reading assignment

Not so long ago my Litblog Coop cohorts nominated a set of books for the first Read This! selection of 2007. We’d love it if you joined us in our…

Read this! Sam Savage podcast

All week the LBC has been celebrating the fall top pick, Firmin by Sam Savage. Don’t miss the podcast, in which Ed talks to Savage in person, with much enthusiasm….