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Exclusive: Lowboy Author John Wray Takes the Cliche Out of the NYC Subway Story

We started reading Lowboy only a few days before we walked into Barnes and Noble and saw its dark cover prominently displayed, featured next to other titles from the weekend’s Times book review. Since...

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Finally! One Problem with Lowboy

The “one problem” mentioned in the title is an embarrassingly minuscule one, we promise. Nit-picking, really. If you’re a publicist, reading this to collect clips — or blurbs! blurb us for the...

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Oversight: 1. regulatory supervision 2. an inadvertant omission [Literary Links]

As we mentioned earlier, the long list of finalists for the Man Booker International Prize was announced today by judging panel chair Jane Smiley in a press conference held at the New York Public...

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Watch Before Reading: Art-House Book Trailers

Usually just one to three minutes long, the best book trailers swiftly inform potential readers of what to expect. But unlike most movie previews, these trailers are often interpretive, rather than...

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What’s on at Flavorpill: The Links that Made the Rounds in our Office.

Today at Flavorpill, we relived last night’s amazing Happy Ending Music & Reading Series which featured Wells Tower, John Wray, Arthur Phillips, and Vampire Weekend thanks to our friends at...

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Quote of the Day: Zach Galifianakis’ First “Character”

“While still in high school, Galifianakis developed what he considers his first full-fledged comic ‘character’: an effeminate redneck, with a wildly exaggerated lisp, whose mother warned him about...

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Lowboy’s John Wray Embraces High-End Fashion

Remember that Nylon Mag feature with the kids from Hair that we found so bizarre? Well it seems that Esquire has to decided to one-up the Bumble & Bumble advertorial with something that’s even more...

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Video of the Day: Zach Galifianakis Interviews John Wray

Here’s one of our favorite comedians interviewing one of our favorite authors — except they’ve inexplicably swapped roles and there’s not a fern in sight. It’s kind of brilliant. The money quote: “From...

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Judging Countries By Their Covers: US vs UK Book Jackets

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but can you judge a country by the kind of covers it puts on its books? We’ve always found the cover changes between US and UK editions of the same books...

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The Strange and Fruitful Relationship Between Literature and Metal

Wolves in the Throne Room Judging by the 4.7 rating it got from Pitchfork, Celestite — the latest album by the Olympia band Wolves in the Throne Room — is something of a disappointment, especially...

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The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2016

It’s far too early to have read the major book releases of 2016 — or even the likely contenders published in the first quarter of 2016 — but at this point it’s fair to say that among all of the...

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10 Must-Read Books for February 2016

With its panoramic historical novels, long-awaited follow-ups, impressive debuts, and sure-fire debate-sparking works of criticism and investigative nonfiction, February of 2016 seems to contain an...

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