Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for December 3, 2013.
How I Wrote It: Jim Harrison on "Brown Dog"
3:00 PM PST, December 3, 2013
After writing about Brown Dog, aka B.D., for more than twenty years, Jim Harrison has collected six B.D. stories into a collection called Brown Dog (one of our Best Books of the Month for December). These novellas--one of which has never been published--span nearly a quarter century, and it's an enormously satisfying reading experience to spend so much time with Harrison's …
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Daniel Menaker on The New Yorker, on Writers, the Drive to Succeed, and More
12:20 PM PST, December 3, 2013
When it comes to literary careers, Daniel Menaker's reads like a dream-come-true. After 26 years at The New Yorker, where he was a fiction editor (and where his own stories were published), he went on to work as an editor at Random House and Harper Collins, eventually landing as Editor-in-Chief at Random House. His new book My Mistake is a fascinating in-depth recollection of …
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Best Books of the Month: Editors' Picks for December
8:49 AM PST, December 3, 2013
December is traditionally a sluggish month in publishing, a lull between the blockbuster fall season and the launch of a new year. Which makes December the perfect month to seek out gems that might otherwise get overlooked. For example, our Best of the Month list includes a bestselling Korean fable making it's English-translation debut; a collection of novellas by the brilliant Jim Harrison, …
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