David Leavitt partakes in a lengthy, candid interview about the "dire state of fiction" at Court the Jesters.In all honesty, ...

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* James Wood's How Fiction Works has reached Australia, and now those reviews are starting to come in. * Birds of Paradise is a novel written in collaboration by readers of the Los Angeles Times.  It loo...

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It was a real treat for us to finally get to hear Mark Thwaite, one of the UK's best and brightest book bloggers, as he makes the case (and for some, apparently, the case still needs to be made) for re...

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First up, there's a new episode of Titlepage online - this installment focuses on non-fiction writers. Elsewhere, TEV reader Robert Ne...

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You'll want to check out the revamped P&W website. ...

Continue Reading POETS & WRTERS MAKEOVER

We're not trying to be obtuse or anything but, seriously, which is it?  Is there a crisis in book reviewing or is there more book information out there than we can keep up with?   Hmm...

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Always a happy day at Chez TEV - the new Bookforum is online with the usual embarrassment of riches. ...

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* The complete schedule of panels for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books has been released. * The renowned editor Aaron Asher, who work...

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We're outta here, off for a real NYC drive-by, back on Wednesday afternoon.  If we had time on our way out the door, these ar...

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We continue to argue with ourselves about the merits of link roundups, but there's so much interesting literary news out there that we...

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