Monthly Archives: May 2010

Would you read a story on your iphone?

May 26, 2010
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I don’t have a Kindle yet, or a Nook, or an ipad. But I do have an iphone, on which I occasionally read short sections of books while waiting in the security line at the airport. Although I’ll never, ever give up ink-and-paper books, I can imagine a kind of reading schizophrenia, wherein I read certain types of content the old-fashioned way, while enjoying some fiction electronically. I think one of the best uses for e-book technology is the short fiction form. New self-publishing platforms are a terrific way to introduce readers to an author’s out-of-print work, or to...

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With love, from Russia

May 21, 2010
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With love, from Russia

I’ve just seen the cover of the Russian edition of No One You Know…and I love it! The books is published by Phantom Press and translated by Galina Tumarkin.

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Before the oil, there was jubilee

May 6, 2010
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Before the oil, there was jubilee

Last Friday night, in the town of Monroeville, AL, birthplace of Harper Lee, I found myself sitting beneath the stars on the lawn of the old courthouse, watching a wonderful local performance of To Kill a Mockingbird. At a reception following the play, at a lovely bookstore and cafe called The Bee Hive, I met a woman from Dauphin Island. Her house was right on the water, she said. Like most of the houses on Dauphin Island, it’s propped up on stilts, so that when the waves get high they go under the house, instead of through it. “Tomorrow,”...

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