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Category Archives: Publishing

Why I Gave You that Blank Stare, and Why You Gave Me One, Too

By Antoine | Published: July 28, 2010
When you publish a book, and people read it, and they want to say nice things to you about it (or maybe they’re avoiding saying mean things about it), they often tell you that some part of your work reminds them of some other book they’ve read. These encounters can be some of the most [...]
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Hero to Zero

By Antoine | Published: April 12, 2010
Ever find yourself comparing your work to the work of some master you’ve always admired? The worst possible time to do this (and therefore the time it’s likeliest to happen) is when you’re working on a first draft. The double-worst time is when those first draft pages are the middle pages of a novel, when [...]
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Yeps

By Antoine | Published: March 12, 2010
No one who thinks that he can write like Nabokov has anything intelligent to say about him. From DG Myers’ blog post Ten Rules for Criticism.
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So long, dirty oughts…

By Antoine | Published: January 4, 2010
The Interloper has been included in L Magazine’s Books of the Decade. Which is awesome.
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As Told To

By Antoine | Published: December 9, 2009
Lookie what I found in my inbox! Veronique du Turenne was down Mexico way recently for the Guadalajara International Book Fair, where she snapped this significant shot of a massive electronic wall celebrating L.A. authors. This year’s “Guest of Honor” was Los Angeles–the first time a city (as opposed to a country) has received that [...]
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APS

By Antoine | Published: October 15, 2009
Yo, check the TOC for APS#9. Now you can see what I’ve been up to. Hanging in the aether (or on a hard drive somewhere) with TCB, Richard Powers, David Shields, my old friend Sally Keith, Derek Walcott, and others.
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Holiday Reinhorn

By Antoine | Published: September 21, 2009
My homegirl the brilliant writer Holiday Reinhorn has a new website, and it is totally worth checking out. It’s visually awesome and has tons of stuff to explore. So far my favorite is an interview with Ursula K. Leguin she wrote for career day at Chapman School, Portland, OR in 1978.
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OMG it’s a baby blog

By Antoine | Published: August 11, 2009
Okay, not totally a baby blog. I very much enjoyed David Ulin’s LA Times piece on reading in the 21st century. Maybe you will, too. It inspired me to shut down the Facebook, Scrabble, Twitter, email, etc., and pick up the latest issue of A Public Space. I was blown away by a strange story [...]
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Review

By Antoine | Published: July 2, 2009
My review of Richard Lange’s debut novel, This Wicked World, set to appear in this Sunday’s LA Times, is already available online.
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Festival of Books

By Antoine | Published: April 28, 2009
Another year, another LA Times Festival of Books. I’m feeling somewhat melancholy in the wake of it. It’s hard to come back to the desk after such a wonderfully stimulating series of social interactions, literary or otherwise. Usually I get excited to meet one writer or another, someone whose work I’ve always admired but I’ve [...]
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