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Posted on April 1st, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

It's been an odd convergence of Dumas this week. I spent some time over the weekend in the garage poking through boxes and ca...

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MORE THINGS FALL APART

Posted on March 27th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

Carlin Romano considers the "unique literary and academic phenomenon" that is Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.For many readers t...

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EDWARD HIRSCH’S SPECIAL ORDERS

Posted on March 25th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

One of the best parts about our recent Titlepage appearance was it gave us an excuse to acquaint ourselves with Edward Hirsch and ...

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COMING SOON: FUGITIVE PIECES

Posted on March 24th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

Somehow we managed to miss the news that Anne Michaels's glorious novel Fugitive Pieces has been made into a movie which will open o...

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MENDELSOHN’S CRITICAL LIBRARY

Posted on March 6th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

TEV favorite Daniel Mendelsohn has posted his iteration of NBCC's "The Critical Library" over at Critical Mass, and some of...

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THE GIFT

Posted on March 6th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

Lewis Hyde's The Gift - which just turned 25 and has drawn accolades from the like of Zadie Smith - recently came onto our radar, ...

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HOT JOURNALS

Posted on March 6th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

We get so inundated with books (as you've recently seen) that we don't always get to meaningfully shout out to some of the exceptional li...

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SEE FOR YOURSELF

Posted on February 26th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

You know where we stand on this one, folks. If you want to have a meaningful opinion about Beautiful Children, check it out f...

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WHERE WERE YOU?

Posted on February 12th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

Just as generations still talk about where they were when they learned Johns Kennedy and Lennon had been murdered, you'll want to be...

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NBCC GOOD READS: LOCAL VOICES WEIGH IN

Posted on February 5th, 2008 on The Elegant Variation

The NBCC has announced its Winter GoodReads list. To see who's been chosen, you'll need to stop over at Critical Mass. In anticip...

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