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Persepolis
Ascendant, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
March 20, 2013
On the Shelf
The banning of
Persepolis
in Chicagoland schools has, in the grand tradition, boosted the graphic novel’s (already robust) sales.
“I have only one humble criticism. I wonder if you realize how good you are.”
Mutual admiration letters
betwixt authors (and yes, the unsolicited humble criticism is Mailer to Styron).
“Philip Roth celebrated his eightieth birthday in the Billy Johnson Auditorium of the Newark Museum last night with the most astonishing literary performance I’ve ever witnessed.”
David Remnick was there
.
“There is no modernist stream-of-consciousness novel harder to get through than a publisher-author agreement.” And other
things every writer should know
.
Edinburgh’s
Looking Glass Books
: we want to go to there.
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