novels
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Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition.
Four years after releasing their novella, The Frankfurt Kabuff, an erotic thriller set at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires (alias Blaire Squiscoll) have published this unique…
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Pamela’s Letterbox
At first, the move from in-person instruction to an online Zoom classroom seemed like it would hit us particularly hard in Dr. Matt Kirschenbaum’s “BookLab: How to Do Things with…
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David Letzler. The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention
In this thought-provoking, well-written study, David Letzler combines computer science and information theory with genre criticism to propose an innovative way of theorizing reader response to the excesses often found…
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 336p., ill. ISBN 9780231165945 (cloth). US $40.00. Rebecca Walkowitz’s conceptually…
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Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of “Peyton Place.” Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xiv, 223p., ill. ISBN 080145364X. US $24.95. In this comprehensive analysis of Grace Metalious’s 1956 novel,…