Book News for Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Vice, Vice, Baby: Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Inherent Vice, hits stores (and eBooks, I guess) today. To say reviews are mixed is an understatement. While Publishers Weekly says Pynchon's fans "will...
View ArticleErin Morgenstern: The Powells.com Interview
All this summer, Erin Morgenstern's debut novel, The Night Circus, has been garnering extraordinary buzz in the book world, which is especially remarkable given that it doesn't go on sale until...
View ArticleHow Is Fantasy Different from Fairy Tale?
Fairy tale is a country of the mind where there are many inhabitants stretching back into deep time, and we're like people before Babel, we speak a common tongue: fairy tales exist in a symbolic...
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: Salman Rushdie
Describe your latest book. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a fairy-tale of New York (well, mostly New York). New York with added genies (jinn). It's about a jinnia princess, Dunia,...
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