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Hooked on books: Going literary in letter form is a well-traveled road

Still perched high on the bestseller lists after more than 26 weeks in the top spot, Virginia Evans' "The Correspondent" ...
The Irish Times

Invented new literary form to deal with human tragedy

'I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position," remarked the German writer W.G. Sebald, who died on December 14th aged 57. That scruple put him at odds with much of contemporary ...
The Bulletin

’Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel’ conjures new literary form

“Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel” by Anya Ulinich (Penguin, 362 pgs., $17) It’s tempting to frame Anya Ulinich’s “Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel” in terms of its antecedents: Bernard Malamud ...