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2014 Giller Prize Winner

November 11, 2014

The 2014 winner of the Giller Prize has been announced — and it lines up with the Shadow Giller’s pick! Read the full post.

Dave Eggers: “The Alaska of Giants and Gods”

November 10, 2014

This weeks New Yorker story is Dave Eggers’ “The Alaska of Giants and Gods.” Betsy shares her thoughts. Read the full post.

Jacques Tati: Mon Oncle

November 8, 2014

Trevor reviews Jacques Tati’s 1958 film Mon Oncle, recently released by The Criterion Collection in its boxset The Complete Jacques Tati. Read the full post.

2666 Read-Along — Part 4: The Part about the Crimes

November 7, 2014

Every life, Epifanio said that night to Lalo Cura, no matter how happy it is, ends in pain and suffering. That depends, said Lalo Cura. Depends on what, champ? On lots of things, said Lalo Cura. Say you’re shot in the back of the head, for example, and you don’t hear the motherfucker come up

Sanford Friedman: Conversations with Beethoven

November 5, 2014

Trevor reviews Sanford Friedman’s brilliant final novel, Conversations with Beethoven, unpublished at his death in 2010 and just now put out by NYRB Classics. Read the full post.

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