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At a time when writers and publishers shy away from the obscure and the oblique, Rothwell’s ambition and the intricacy of his book must be acknowledged. Andrew Riemer’s review of Nicolas Rothwell’s Belomor.

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Friday Links

If you lived in a world made of books, it might look a little something like this.

Related: how to make a headboard for your bed.

Personal ads in the New York Review of Books: helping nerds get dates since 1963.

The best imaginary friends in children’s literature.

Today, Elsewhere

Great illustrations for Marriage Is a Canoe, the book-within-a-book in Ben Schrank’s Love Is a Canoe.

Silent reading isn’t all that silent, apparently.

Watch a cool visualisation of silent letters.

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Lots of US press for Herman Koch’s The Dinner!

An interview with Herman Koch on CBS News.

A review of The Dinner in USA Today.

The Daily Beast asks: can Herman Koch’s The Dinner take America by storm?

In praise of big box bookstores.

Today, Elsewhere

Another moving, brilliant interview with Damien Echols, author of Life After Death, on Sunday Night Safran. West of Memphis, the Peter Jackson–produced documentary about the West Memphis Three, is out in Australia on Thursday.

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Today, Elsewhere

An award-winning essay by Hedley Twidle on J. M. Coetzee and South African literature.

Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellarman claim that most of what you think you know about grammar is wrong; others say that most of what O'Conner and Kellarman think about grammar is wrong.

Friday Links

7 fragrances inspired by literature.

Oh, those literary rogues! A list of the top misbehaving authors.

Great literary characters inspired by real-life famous people.

Today, Elsewhere

I understand the Chinese political and cultural environment well. I understand people who don’t use their voice. As an intellectual and author I should require myself to do it first. If I don’t do enough, I can’t require other authors to do so. There’s always a reason.

Today, Elsewhere

‘This is an astonishing, defiant little book’: Murray Bail’s The Voyage reviewed in the Irish Times.

Reading chick lit makes you feel fat. This is why I only read cookbooks.

Dustin Kurtz of Melville House on why he won’t shut up about Amazon.

Friday Links

What mode of communication should you use? Consult this handy flowchart for the answer.

10 movies that make writing out to look incredibly dangerous (and not a one about the perils of paper cuts).

Sylvia Plathypus and other literary puns, illustrated.

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