http://www.bookslut.com/ en-us mschaubtx@gmail.com 2010-02-03T04:16:16+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2010_02_015685.php page martin discreet pleasures of rejection 15685@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2010-02-03T04:16:16+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2010_02_015684.php straub emma fly-over state 15684@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2010-02-02T16:20:58+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2010_02_015682.php meltzer marisa girl power 15682@http://www.bookslut.com/ nonfiction 2010-02-02T16:05:12+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/cookbookslut/2010_02_015680.php Cookbookslut has been inundated with books derived from food blogs in the last few months. It makes sense. If you’re an agent or editor out there -- you find a blog with a unique voice; the author has already... 15680@http://www.bookslut.com/ cookbookslut 2010-02-02T15:30:31+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015677.php It may surprise you -- or maybe not, depending how long you stand in front of your closet deciding what you're going to wear that day -- that you have two people inside of you. One is logical, mathematical,... 15677@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:09:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015661.php “At first you don’t see them,” reads the introduction to Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugresic’s contribution to Canongate’s Myths series, “….At first they’re invisible. And then all at once you begin to spot them. They shuffle around the world... 15661@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:08:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015679.php "Because I so rarely saw black characters in books when I was a child, I learned to relate to protagonists who didn’t look like me -- but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t identify with their struggles, triumphs, etc. It... 15679@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:07:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015667.php Zachary German (b. 1988) is the author of Eat When You Feel Sad, which is out this month from Melville House. It is his first novel and first book. Dennis Cooper said of it: “Zachary German’s nimble, catwalking, archeological, surface... 15667@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:06:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015686.php These three poems are some of the latest from Linh Dinh’s newest book, Some Kind of Cheese Orgy. Linh Dinh’s work has been described as both “surreal” and “straightforth.” As with his photography published on his State of the Union... 15686@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:05:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015660.php Nate Pritts is the author of The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books) and two previous books of poems, Sensational Spectacular and Honorary Astronaut. A collaboration with painter Keith Gamache, Flutter By, is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press. He teaches poetry... 15660@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:04:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015687.php I first learned about David Shields when a professor brought a box of galley copies of Reality Hunger to class last January. Reality Hunger quickly became a topic of hallway discussions that semester and everyone was trying to borrow or... 15687@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:03:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015665.php One of the brightest lights in Caribbean literature, Maryse Condé (née Boucolon) is the author of numerous books, fifteen of which have been translated into English. Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Condé left the Antilles at the age of sixteen... 15665@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:02:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015668.php Peter Rudiak-Gould, newly arrived at age 21 in the Marshall Islands, decided to walk the entire perimeter of the island called Ujae. What better way, he reasoned, to explore the place that would be his home for the next year?... 15668@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:01:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_02_015657.php Jason Koo was born in New York City and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA in English from Yale, his MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston, and his PhD in English and creative... 15657@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2010-02-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2010_01_015671.php haslett adam union atlantic 15671@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2010-01-31T11:43:03+00:00