The NY Times’ Paper Cuts blog recently pointed out the new trend of selling individual short stories. Reportedly, The Atlantic has made an exclusive deal with Amazon to distribute new fiction through the Kindle system. While smaller operations, like One Story and Madras Press, are charging for similar content in online issues and chapbooks respectively.
I remember the John Cheever story I read in college — and how the depths of it thrilled my professor to no end. Now all this chatter about his biography has got my head scratching. While I probably won’t tackle that exhaust account of his life I will probably scrounge around for his name in the next used book store I walk into.
Here’s some of the stuff that has been turning up on the man:
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series)
Terry Eagleton
Yale University Press, 2009
If fundamentalism is as Terry Eagleton claims a “failure of the imagination,” Reason, Faith, and Revolution is his attempt to show how religion’s liberal opponents and their ultra-rationalist arguments have suffered the same intellectual failures as those that they [...]
Today the Avenues of A, B and C are full of sushi restaurants, cafes and bars that serve martinis for double digit prices. It is a far cry from the place that Miguel Algarin grew up in and remained in. The neighborhood still has its charm that separates it completely from the rest of the [...]
In The Accordionist’s Son, Bernardo Atxaga brings the horrors of recent history to light without diminishing the mysteriously foreign and beautiful world that he has created. And it is another world that Atxaga has created, so particular in the details of both the land and its inhabitants that it feels organic like few fictional worlds [...]
Nick Harkaway’s debut novel, The Gone-Away World, brings magical realism to the post apocalyptic genre. A well written vision for futurists and luddites alike.
In the The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel Salman Rushdie continues to explore his interest in how the supernatural can be brought to life through the power of storytelling. However, he does so without the grandiosely experimental postmodernism of his earlier works.
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