- 11/24/08 /
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The End Is Nigher
Houghton Mifflin is halting all acquisitions.
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Boris Kachka Archive
- 11/24/08 /
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Danny Hoch on Why Michigan Girls Are Like Croissants
Danny Hoch's sweet-toothed thoughts on why Williamsburg hipsters are "marshmallows" and Michigan girls are more like pastries.
- 11/20/08 /
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National Book Awards After-Party: Actually Fun!
'It's like my bar mitzvah. Except I'm not broken out and I actually like my friends.'
- 11/20/08 /
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Hope, Change, and Upset at National Book Awards Ceremony
Naturally, you'd expect it to be Aleksander Hemon's year, but the winner was … Peter Matthiessen.
- 11/12/08 /
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Culture Critic Ken Tucker on the Enduring, Inexplicable Influence of ‘Scarface’
We talk to critic Ken Tucker about the 'great shallow masterpiece' 'Scarface' — and why Brian De Palma won't allow a new hip-hop soundtrack.
- 11/7/08 /
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Why Big Books Still Matter
Is Roberto Bolaño's masterpiece, '2666,' really any more difficult than two seasons of 'Mad Men'?
- 10/29/08 /
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What Is a $125 Million Settlement With Google Worth to Publishers?
Publishers are $125 million richer than they were last week thanks to a settlement with Google over its copyright-breaking Library Search program — what could they buy?
- 10/28/08 /
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Jonathan Franzen Rails Against Cell Phones, Microsoft Word, and Love at Book Reading
He redefined privacy as 'sparing me from the intrusion of other people’s personal lives.'
- 10/20/08 /
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‘Boys’ Life’ Star Jason Biggs on Never Growing Up and Full-Frontal Nudity
He talked to us about his hero Ben Stiller, the plague of onstage boy nudity, and the joys of typecasting.
- 10/8/08 /
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Jane Friedman on What She’s Up To: ‘Everything’
The ousted HarperCollins CEO opened up a little about her memories of the publishing house, and about what she's up to (sort of).
