Broken Eggs Here & There

The litblogosphere's favorite punching bag, Sam Tanenhaus, spoke at the 22nd annual Literature Lecture in El Paso and one attendee left more than a little disappointed:

When the guero is finished with his talk, I buy his book so I can ask him what role he thinks Chicano literature is going to play in American letters. And because I asked straight up like that, he couldn't bring up Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who we both know ain't Mexican-American. The pobre had to answer something, and you know what he told me? He just doesn't see it having a big role in literature, such as other media and the Internet.

Then I countered with como puedes decir eso with so many Mexicans coming into this country, only I say it in English so that he can understand me, and he shrugs his shoulders and says that the Internet and blogs are going to have a huge impact and no one can predict where literature is really going. {SoT:  My emphasis. He really said that?  Sam Tanenhaus said the blogs are going to "have a huge impact?"}

And I'm satisfied, because that's right: He has no idea where literature is going. I thank him y me despido de el.

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Lionel Shriver, one of Raleigh's most well-known writers--despite the fact that so few know that she's actually from Raleigh--will be reading here on Tuesday in support of her new novel The Post-Birthday World.  The News and Observer profiles her:

"When I look back on it, I realize it was a rich childhood and I'm glad I grew up there," she said in a phone interview last month from New York City, where she visits friends and family each year. "I feel a sense of identity. True, I didn't stay there. I haven't set a whole string of novels in North Carolina. But if the state wants to claim me, they can have me."

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More than just dust collects atop Miranda July's fridge. {via}

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Jane Campion plans to bring the story of Keats' love affair with Fanny Brawne to the big screen.

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Over at The Boston Globe, Jan Freeman writes about "wanton eggcorns."

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