This looks promising: Critical Compendium is a "daily dose of book reviews from around the world." The down note: they mostly don't link to literary blogs because they want to offer readers "reviews rather than the more open ended ruminations/discussions found on blogs." I'm happy to report that plenty of lit blogs are fabulous sources of book reviews. For example, the site that tipped me to this link is one of the best.
David R. Godine, Publisher has a new blog up to compliment its wide-ranging booklist.
Say what? Short stories don't belong short story collections? (Via)
Lori White at The Kenyon Review: "My personal experience has been that if you write and publish in more than one genre, especially equally, you might not be fully trusted in any particular camp. If you are a poet who writes essays—aside from academic or critical essays about poetry—certain poets might consider you suspect. Ditto, an essayist who writes poems. Crossing genres, or, worse, never having declared your country of origin in the first place, is seen as suspect by some readers, critics, and fellow writers."
At Tin House, Aaron Hamburger reflects on how contemporary writers have "attempted to confront mankind's greatest horrors--and flinched."
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