Book Deals: 6-30-08: Supreme Court, Celtics, Iraq and more… [Publishers Weekly]
Joanna Kavenna: How the author turned from unpublishable failure to prizewinning writer: Her novel Inglorious was so raw, so intense in its portrait of the psychic disintegration of the protagonist, Rosa Lane, that we wondered to what extent Rosa’s meltdown reflected the author’s own state of mind. [Independent]
Summer and Smoke, an American Cauldron: It’s not surprising, then, that American literature is a catalogue of summer disturbances, especially the literature of the South, thanks to geography. Its swamplands and deltas bristle with heat-stoked tensions. [NYT]
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