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Let's Capitalize on the Garth Risk Hallberg Thing for a Post
If you’re into book industry news and whatnot, you’ve probably heard the story about Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel, City on Fire. Just to recap though, before the book had a publisher, Scott Rudin, the movie producer behind Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and No Country ...
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The Millions on Translation and Prizes
Over at The Millions, Garth follows up on his literary prize post of a few days ago: I know next to nothing about the translation business, except that it is vital to my reading habits. And so, earlier this week, I posted a little survey of international awards for fiction, along with the unobjectionable (I think) ...
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The Canonization of Roberto Bolaño
Garth Risk Hallberg has a solid overview of Bolaño and why he matters at The Millions: In American literature, experimentalism is kept like a domesticated animal. For twenty-two hours a day, it sleeps under the kitchen table. Occasionally, when we get bored, we trot it out and put it through its tricks to remind ...
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