By Comic Book World News Weekly
We’re making progress.
Posted on August 29, 2014
Local Book Notes: Outlaws And Angry Cores
Plus: Watching People Walk
1. Angry Core, Slow Burn.
“Finally, more than 10 years after Dela Pava began writing his novel, a publishing insider got in touch. Levi Stahl was publicity manager at University of Chicago Press. In 2010 he was also, in his spare time, poetry reviews editor at the Quarterly Conversation, an online literary magazine. Stahl got hold of A Naked Singularity after it was flagged up by a contributor, and was impressed,” Susanna Rustin writes for the Guardian.
“He took it to an editor who agreed that although, as an academic publisher, University of Chicago does not publish new fiction, it should make an offer for this book.
“In 2012 De La Pava’s slow-burn, word-of-mouth novel won the PEN/Robert W Bingham prize for the best debut novel of the year.
“In 2013 University of Chicago published De La Pava’s follow-up, the fragmentary and experimental Personae, much of which is made up of the imaginative writings of a character who has died alone, aged 111, in his Manhattan flat.”
Posted on August 27, 2014
Abunimah Speaks!
Evanston Survives!
“An overflow crowd listened to Chicago writer Ali Abunimah read from his book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine, at the Evanston Public Library on Monday after the library’s controversial decision [link added] to postpone, and then reissue, his invitation to speak,” the Tribune reports.
Here’s the video:
Posted on August 12, 2014
Local Book Notes: Electronic Intifada In Evanston
Plus: Great Lakes Segregation & Race Theorist Abe Lincoln
“Evanston Public Library officials on Monday re-issued a speaking invitation to a Palestinian-American writer after their earlier decision to call off his talk sparked an angry response on social media,” the Tribune reports.
“The Chicago writer, Ali Abunimah, said in a post on his website that he will accept the library’s change of heart over his Aug. 11 appearance for a reading and discussion of his book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine.”
Interest in Abunimah’s reading has surely multiplied thanks to EPL’s goof, but he deserves a higher local profile, given the influence of his website The Electronic Intifada.
Posted on August 6, 2014