Sarah Weinman pimped The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry in a Weekly Reader post a few weeks back and before that Hannah Tinti revealed that it was the last book that had kept her up all night long. If you’re in New York, you can catch the author this Thursday at KGB Bar along with Deb Olin Unferth as part of the Behind the Book reading series.
After the jump, Berry talks with us about influences, breaking the taboo against dreams in fiction, and what the New Yorker got wrong in its review of his book.
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A few years ago Sarah Weinman thought she was going to have a career in science, possibly of the forensic variety. But then she launched the crime and mystery fiction blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind as a way of procrastinating on her master’s thesis, and it literally changed her life’s path.
We can respect that.
We also respect her opinions on books across all genres, so much so that we’ve asked Weinman to recommend a new one for you to check out each Wednesday. (It’s amazing that she finds the time. The woman read 462 books last year.)
Learn more about her latest pick — courtesy of our neighbors from the north — after the jump, and leave us your review in the comments if you’ve already read it.
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A few years ago Sarah Weinman thought she was going to have a career in science, possibly of the forensic variety. But then she launched the crime and mystery fiction blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind as a way of procrastinating on her master’s thesis, and it literally changed her life’s path.
We can respect that.
We also respect her opinions on books across all genres, so much so that we’ve asked Weinman to recommend a new one for you to check out each Wednesday. (It’s amazing that she finds the time. The woman read 462 books last year.)
Learn more about her latest pick — a thrilling tale of revenge! — after the jump, and leave us your review in the comments if you’ve already read it.
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A few years ago Sarah Weinman thought she was going to have a career in science, possibly of the forensic variety. But then she launched the crime and mystery fiction blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind as a way of procrastinating on her master’s thesis, and it literally changed her life’s path.
We can respect that.
We also respect her opinions on books across all genres, so much so that we’ve asked Weinman to recommend a new one for you to check out each Wednesday. (It’s amazing that she finds the time. The woman read 462 books last year.)
Learn more about her latest pick after the jump, and let us know in the comments area what you thought if you’ve already read it.
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A few years ago Sarah Weinman thought she was going to have a career in science, possibly of the forensic variety. But then she launched the crime and mystery fiction blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind as a way of procrastinating on her master’s thesis, and it literally changed her life’s path.
We can respect that.
We also respect her opinions on books across all genres, so much so that we’ve asked Weinman to recommend a new one for you to check out each Wednesday. (It’s amazing that she finds the time. The woman read 462 books last year.)
Learn more about her latest pick after the jump, and let us know in the comments area what you thought if you’ve already read it.
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A few years ago Sarah Weinman thought she was going to have a career in science, possibly of the forensic variety. But then she launched the crime and mystery fiction blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind as a way of procrastinating on her master’s thesis, and it literally changed her life’s path.
We can respect that.
We also respect her opinions on books across all genres, so much so that we’ve asked Weinman to recommend a new one for you to check out each Wednesday. (It’s amazing that she finds the time. The woman read 462 books last year.)
Learn more about her latest pick after the jump, and let us know in the comments area what you thought if you’ve already read it.
Read More »
A few years ago Sarah Weinman thought she was going to have a career in science, possibly of the forensic variety. But then she launched the crime and mystery fiction blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind as a way of procrastinating on her master’s thesis, and it literally changed her life’s path.
We can respect that.
We also respect her opinions on books across all genres, so much so that we’ve asked Weinman to recommend a new one for you to check out each Wednesday. (It’s amazing that she finds the time. The woman read 462 books last year.)
Learn more about her latest pick after the jump, and let us know in the comments area what you thought if you’ve already read it.
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A few years ago Sarah Weinman thought she was going to have a career in science, possibly of the forensic variety. But then she launched the crime and mystery fiction blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind as a way of procrastinating on her master’s thesis, and it literally changed her life’s path.
We can respect that.
We also respect her opinions on books across all genres, so much so that we’ve asked Weinman to recommend a new one for you to check out each Wednesday.
Learn more about her second pick (the first is here) — after the jump, and let us know in the comments area what you thought if you’ve already read it.
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Our literary friend Sarah Weinman has written an interesting piece for the Guardian‘s Books Blog that examines what’s behind the recent “We hate Jonathan Safran Foer!” trend. The Cliffs Notes version: he’s young and rich; he’s married to another really talented writer; he lives in a dream apartment in a dreamy neighborhood. Any of those facts alone would be enough to incite our inner green-eyed monster, but put together in laundry list fashion, they make him sound like an unbearable force that must be stopped — even if we’re doing it subconsciously (See: Itmar Moses, Malcolm Goldwell, and Anya Ulinich).
But what we find even more fascinating than Foer fall out is the commenters’ reactions to Weinman’s fun post, and by extension, America’s obsession with celebrity and scandal. If there’s anything more entertaining than a literary culture war, it’s British people judging us for being entertained by a literary culture war. A few of the stodgiest comments — which we imagine were composed whilst sipping tea and nibbling Matlesers with Fawlty Towers – The complete series blaring in the background — after the jump.
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