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Remainders

Broken Twitter plugin, y'all. If you're used to reading my tweets here, you'll have to go over there until I figure out what's wrong.
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I've been spending more time at my Tumblr recently. Over the years it's come to feel like a better place for bloggy stuff that doesn't fit on Twitter or warrant a longer post here.
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At the New York Times Magazine, I wonder whether Tom Stoppard sided with Graham Greene or Anthony Burgess in adapting Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End. And why we in the U.S. have to wait so long to find out.
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"No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street." -- Florence King, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, one of several books I'm reading, this one suggested by the fabulous Joan Schenkar.
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"Benedict Cumberbatch, who stars in Parade’s End as Christopher Tietjens, the last of the old Tories, dismisses Downton as [a period soap opera]."
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"I was making a film about a local author when I met Harry Crews. He was not my subject; he was my subject’s inspiration. 'You oughta put a camera on this guy,' the local author urged.” The origins of Gary Hawkins' film about Harry Crews.
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I wrote about Mary McCarthy's dissertation-worthy The Group for Bookforum's summer Money issue. Print only, for now at least. Please let her Paris Review interview (with a young Elisabeth Sifton!) whet your appetite.
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The New York Times Magazine asked some writers and critics, including me, which 2011 novel they'd have given the Pulitzer to. I said Mat Johnson's Pym.
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"Almost all of the great books are regional books," Ron Rash (Serena) has said. "Landscape is destiny." We talked about his latest novel, The Cove, on April 25, at McNally Jackson.
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My friend Philip Connors' excellent Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, an Orion Prize finalist, is out in paperback. Our Paris Review interview, which spilled over onto this site, is included.
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