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My Book-Buffer for June and July
Form of: seven book reviews in one post!
Prize Fight: Why I’m Okay With There Being No Pulitzer for Fiction This Year
I’m not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It’s probably just because I’m a weird person. …
Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace
Nicolle Wallace knows politics. Her new novel, It’s Classified, explores what would happen if a woman plucked from relative obscurity became Vice President of the United States
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Dead Tree Alert: The Soul of Twit
This week’s column in the print TIME looks at Twitter as a literary art form. No, seriously. With the emergence of satirical accounts like @BPGlobalPR, which has mercilessly flogged BP over the Gulf oil spill, the fake-Twitter account has come into its own as Twitter’s indigenous genre of fiction. What is Twitter lit good for? What are …
All-TIME 100 Novels
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME.