The New York Review Of Books reviews the newest collection of Susan Sontag’s work.
Matthew Kirschenbaum’s new book is now available for preorders at Amazon.
I visit their site often, but until Bookslut mentioned it I didn’t realize Bookforum had a blog on their site.
New Reading
There are four publications I enjoy with new issues out recently: The Quarterly Conversation and Bookforum have put out their summer issues. There are also June issues available from Bookslut and Words Without Borders.
May Issue Of Bookslut
A few days ago I sat down and read through the May issue of Bookslut. As usual, there is a mixture of things I am interested in and not all that interested in. What I enjoyed: a review of Paul Auster’s Travel In The Scriptorium, a review of a book I need to pick up soon about Sassy Magazine, and reviews of a group of young adult books, including the excellent Justine Larbalestier.
Marjane Satrapi Interview
In honor of my finishing of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis here’s a link to the interview Book Slut did with her a few months back.
Stephan Chbosky
Word Riot has an interview up with Stephan Chbosky, author of the great book Perks Of Being A Wall Flower. A lot of the interview is spent discussing recent censorship and banning of his book by school districts. SC seems like a cool guy, he even wrote a letter to the one school board who eventually decided not to ban the book. Good for them.
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Douglas Coupland Interview
Nerve has a new interview up with Douglas Coupland about his new book Eleanor Rigby. It seems that he is also doing a sequel to Microserfs. Cool?!
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Yay!
Bookslut has a great list of some books which were questioned or banned this year. I always knew there was a homosexual agenda in 1776!