1. How The Girl on the Train Became a Runaway Success
From Good Reads: “If there’s one word that sums up the publishing success story of this year’s ‘it’ book, The Girl on the Train, it is ‘speed.’ We’ve never seen any other debut novel achieve this kind of velocity on Goodreads.”
2. “The Boy Jihadi” by Youssef Rakha
From Guernica Magazine: A short story by the author of The Crocodiles: A Novel.
“At first the boy jihadi showed up just once. Trailing a bright-red wheelbarrow with a formless load wrapped in a pillowcase inside it, he appeared at the threshold of our apartment building.”
3. Why Do We Always Proclaim That the Novel Is Dead?
From New York Times: “Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Liesl Schillinger and Benjamin Moser talk about why the novel’s demise so regularly looms.”
4. Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief
From New York Times: “One summer about 85 years ago in a small Alabama town, a scrappy tomboy named Nelle met her new next door neighbor, Tru, a bookish, dapper dresser with a high-pitched voice and a mischievous streak.”
5. Sex, Lies, and the Internet: Jonathan Franzen’s reckoning with his literary inheritance
From New Republic: “This was the world in which Jonathan Franzen grew up and that he has never wholly abandoned as a writer, even as he has tried to narrow the gap between the art novel and the old-fashioned chronicle of “the way we live now.” Each of Franzen’s novels places a naturalistic story of domestic strife and estrangement (and sexual combat) within the larger workings of a ‘paranoid’ conspiracy”
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