May 2011
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What Happened to Sophie Wilder
I’m excited to announce that Tin House Books will be publishing my first novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder, in 2012. Tin House’s announcement of the deal is here.
May 10th
February 2011
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In praise of bestiality (or something like...
I’ve been looking for a good excuse to post a few things on this long-dormant site, so I’m glad to have found myself embroiled in a bit of a literary dust-up. Yesterday, the Times ran my review of Benjamin Hale’s The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. Hale’s novel is a first-person confessional in the mode of Nabokov—and more recent practitioners like Banville, Amis, and Peter Carey—with a significant...
Feb 8th
July 2010
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I can be heard (briefly) on the latest episode of Dinner Party Download, a public radio program I highly recommend. 
Jul 26th
May 2010
1 post
Paperback Row
The Whole Five Feet, now in paperback, was featured last week in the New York Times Book Review’s “Paperback Row.”
May 27th
April 2010
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Now in Paperback
The Whole Five Feet is available in paperback on May 11. Order it on Amazon or elsewhere » (www.thewholefivefeet.com/buy-the-book.html)
Apr 22nd
May 2009
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Addendum
My latest piece in The Believer, “Every Reader Finds Himself: Notes on the Book I Didn’t Write About Dr. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf.”
May 5th
February 2009
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New Believer
“A Partisan of Eternity,” my reconsideration of Thornton Wilder, in The Believer.
Feb 9th