Literary fiction
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The History of Literature #168 – Jhumpa Lahiri (“The Third and Final Continent”)
http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL5314501983.mp3 What was it like to relocate from India to London to America in the early 1970s? And how can a daughter hope to recapture the experience of her father and convey it in fiction? In today’s episode of the History of Literature, Jacke and Mike look at a contemporary classic story, Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Continue reading
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Last Chance For Free Books! [Update: The Contest Has Closed]
Goodreads Book Giveaway The Promotion by Jacke Wilson Giveaway ends June 04, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Hello! It’s crunch time, people! Only six hours left in the Goodreads Giveaway for my short novel, The Promotion, the “full of intrigue and deadpan comedy” book that everyone’s talking about. What’s the giveaway? Five lucky Continue reading
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Two Days Left! Sign Up For Free Books Now! [Update: The Contest Has Closed]
Goodreads Book Giveaway The Promotion by Jacke Wilson Giveaway ends June 04, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Happy Monday! Just a quick reminder that there are only two days left in the Goodreads Giveaway for my short novel, The Promotion, the “full of intrigue and deadpan comedy” book that everyone’s talking Continue reading
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Free Books! Let the Goodreads Giveaway-ing Begin! [Update: The Contest Has Closed]
Goodreads Book Giveaway The Promotion by Jacke Wilson Giveaway ends June 04, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Here we go! The folks at Goodreads have approved the application and are now hosting a Goodreads Giveaway for my short novel, The Promotion, the “full of intrigue and deadpan comedy” book that Continue reading
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Small Press Shout-Out: Black Balloon Publishing!
Okay, today’s small press is definitely on the quirkier side. How quirky? Quirkier than that. It just might be the quirkiest of any of our small press shout-outs thus far. First things first. Black Balloon’s website is gorgeous. Not very quirky! Just elegant and beautiful. But then there’s this motto: We champion the weird, the Continue reading
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Small Press Shout-Out: Akashic Books!
Here we go! Back to Brooklyn for another small press shout-out. This week, we look at Akashic Books, which describes itself as a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks Continue reading
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Small Press Shout-Out: Ugly Duckling Presse!
A presse! We’re obviously big fans of the extra e here at the Jacke blog. But there’s more than just creative spelling going on over at Ugly Duckling. There’s the logo (Toyota-like in its ability to combine the presse’s letters into a recognizable symbol). But none of that matters as much as the catalog. And Continue reading
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Small Press Shout-Out: OR Books!
A refuge for renegades, OR Books was founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson (the O and the R), who together have published an impressive roster of authors in their careers, including Tariq Ali, Andrei Codrescu, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, R. Crumb, Cory Doctorow, Andrea Dworkin, Eric Hobsbawm, Abbie Hoffman, Lewis Lapham, Gordon Lish, Rigoberta Continue reading
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Small Press Shoutout: SALT Publishing!
Back again with another small press shoutout! This week we hop across the pond to look at Salt Publishing, which for 15 years has been independently dedicated to creating “A New British Fiction Movement.” Why are they called Salt? Maybe it’s an acronym? Maybe it’s a tribute to the number-one spice? Meat preservation? The taste Continue reading
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Small Press Shoutout: Other Press!
Back again with another small press shoutout! This week we look at Other Press, which focuses on authors with a “passion to discover the limits of knowledge and the imagination.” Oh boy! The editors of Other Press come with some gilded resumes indeed. Here’s an excerpt from Publisher Judith Gurewitch’s bio: Born in Canada and Continue reading
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