Annalisa Quinn

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'Chameleon Club' Takes On Too Many Colors

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The narrators of Francine Prose's novel Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 are not to be trusted. In describing the life of Lou Villars, French racecar driver, cross dresser and Gestapo torturer, Prose tells a complex story about the malleability of truth when everybody is a collaborator.

Lou is ...

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Book News: 'Rabbit-Proof Fence' Author Doris Pilkington Garimara Dies

Monday, April 21, 2014

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

• Doris Pilkington Garimara, the aboriginal author who wrote of the forced separation of mixed-race aboriginal children from their families, died on April 10. She was thought to be 76. Garimara's novel Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence was ...

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Book News: The Celebrity Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Friday, April 18, 2014

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

  • The instantly recognizable man with the immaculate white moustache was a novelist, but he was also a journalist, a political agitator and a celebrity with a reach unlike any writer since Mark Twain. When Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

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Book News: Did Amazon Unintentionally Create A Drug Dealer Starter Kit?

Thursday, April 17, 2014

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  • At The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal writes that Amazon's recommendation algorithm has created an accidental starter kit for drug dealers: "One day, some drug dealer bought a particular digital scale — the AWS-100 — on the retail ...

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Book News: J.K. Rowling Gives Glimpse Of Ginny Weasley As An Adult

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

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  • Ginny Weasley, the freckly, flame-haired girl who later marries Harry Potter, grows up to be a sports journalist, according to new writing from J.K. Rowling on the website Pottermore. (Login required.) The stories are Ginny's dispatches ...

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Book News: A Q&A With Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Vijay Seshadri

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

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Of all the winners of the Pulitzer Prizes announced Monday, perhaps the most unexpected was the poetry collection 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri, which largely passed under the critical radar. (Donna Tartt's brick of a novel, ...

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Horrors Small And Large Haunt 'Birds'

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Suspense and the stink of sheep permeate All the Birds, Singing in equal measure. In Evie Wyld's gloriously gruesome second novel, shepherd Jake lives alone on a chilly, windswept British island, in a cottage "squat and white like a chalk pebble at the black foot of the downs." Something or ...

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Book News: 'Captain Underpants' Is 2013's Most Vilified Book

Monday, April 14, 2014

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  • In a clear victory for the villainous Dr. Diaper, Captain Underpants -- Dav Pilkey's series about a heartless school principal who when hypnotized becomes a kindly superhero dressed only in a cape and a pair of underpants ...

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Book News: Women Writers Dominate Children's Books, Right? Wrong.

Friday, April 11, 2014

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  • Children's and Young Adult books have long been thought to be a sphere especially friendly to women, in contrast with the staggering gender bias found in the world of grown-up literature. It turns out that, nope, women ...

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Book News: What Are The World's Best New Novels? Libraries Weigh In

Thursday, April 10, 2014

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  • The IMPAC Dublin Award — the Dublin-based literary award that asks libraries around the globe to nominate the best new works of fiction — named 10 finalists, with half the books on the list having been ...

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Book News: Archie Comics Is Going To Kill Off Archie

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

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  • Archie Andrews, the freckly, lovelorn comic book star since the 1940s, is going to die in an upcoming issue of the Life With Archie series, which shows Archie's life as an adult. "Archie dies as he lived ...

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'Astonish Me' Is An Artful, Elegant Dance

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

"Etonnez-moi," Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of the Ballets Russes, used to say to his dancers. Astonish me. Maggie Shipstead's book of the same name does not astonish; rather, it charms. It is full of the kind of prose you want to curl up and nest in like a cat: seamless ...

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Book News: Donna Tartt, Jhumpa Lahiri On Baileys Prize Shortlist

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

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  • The shortlist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the world's most prestigious literary award for women, is out. Worth £30,000 (about $50,000), the prize "celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the ...

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Book News: CIA Tried To Use 'Doctor Zhivago' To Weaken The USSR

Monday, April 07, 2014

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  • Declassified documents show that the CIA used copies of Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's epic novel spanning 20th century Russian history, as a tool to try to provoke dissent in the Soviet Union. The book was banned ...

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Book News: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, Hospitalized In Mexico

Friday, April 04, 2014

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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Latin America's most prominent living novelist, has been hospitalized in Mexico City for a lung and urinary tract infection, Mexican health officials told The Associated Press. Author of masterpieces such as One Hundred ...

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Book News: Ted Cruz's Book Advance Said To Eclipse Sarah Palin's

Thursday, April 03, 2014

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  • Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has signed on to write a political memoir with HarperCollins, according to the Washington Examiner. Citing "publishing sources," the newspaper says the Tea Party luminary is expected to get a $1.5 million ...

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Book News: 'Socks, I've Worn A Few?' Flea Is Writing A Memoir

Wednesday, April 02, 2014

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Book News: Jane Goodall Blames Carelessness For Lifted Passages

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

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  • Primatologist Jane Goodall blames slapdash note taking and a busy work schedule for the text lifted from other sources in her book Seeds of Hope, co-written with Gail Hudson. Talking at length about the issue ...

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Book News: Stock Market Is 'Rigged,' Author Michael Lewis Says

Monday, March 31, 2014

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  • A new book by Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of Liar's Poker and Moneyball, says the stock market is "rigged" in favor of high-frequency traders. In Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, which came out Monday after ...

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Book News: Can Mammy Be Rescued From 'Gone With The Wind'?

Friday, March 28, 2014

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  • Author Donald McCaig is writing a novel that gives a real name and a past to Gone With the Wind's "Mammy" — who for decades has personified an ugly racial caricature: the matronly, obese house slave with ...

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