http://www.bookslut.com/ en-us 2012-02-05T19:48:50+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/latin_lit_lover/2012_02_018637.php We travel to lose ourselves or maybe to find a new self, says Pico Iyer somewhere. The hypothesis is nothing new: boat-ride has equalled literary and spiritual pursuit since the early days of Romanticism. Few places have played a feature... 18637@http://www.bookslut.com/ Latin Lit Lover 2012-02-05T19:48:50+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2012_02_018636.php Each issue the Star-Crossed column chooses two or more writers who were born during a particular month and talks about their work.   February Birthdays:  Charles Dickens -- born February 7, 1812, Portsmouth, England Sinclair Lewis -- born February 7, 1885,... 18636@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2012-02-04T15:52:18+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2012_02_018597.php 18597@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2012-02-03T18:38:54+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2012_02_018599.php I’ve been thinking about obstacles. In the bookstore, I flip open a book and it talks about a moment when suddenly, 84,000 doors open, and you can see everything you’ve been looking for your whole life. That would be... 18599@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2012-02-02T19:11:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2012_02_018609.php I'm starting an interview series entitled "Constructive Nonfiction," which will focus on individuals expanding present conceptions of creative nonfiction. As writers, these interviewees have introduced a variety of hybrid forms most often associated with the lyric essay and documentary... 18609@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2012-02-02T17:34:44+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2012_02_018626.php In many ways, Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974 could be another name for some of the novels of William S. Burroughs. Oliver Harris, the premiere Burroughs scholar, has detailed in his excellent William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination how much... 18626@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2012-02-01T20:13:31+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2012_02_018608.php 18608@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2012-02-01T17:14:14+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2012_01_018628.php baumbach jonathan dreams of molly 18628@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2012-01-31T20:44:53+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/bookslut_in_training/2012_01_018627.php 18627@http://www.bookslut.com/ bookslut in training 2012-01-31T20:18:46+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2012_01_018625.php enright kelly osa and martin 18625@http://www.bookslut.com/ nonfiction 2012-01-31T19:38:59+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/cookbookslut/2012_01_018614.php Cookbooks. I struggle with ambivalence about cookbooks. There are so many of them. All that shiny paper and those gorgeous photos and the recipes. The thousands and thousands of recipes. Frankly, most cookbooks (like most other books) are pretty... 18614@http://www.bookslut.com/ cookbookslut 2012-01-29T20:45:06+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2012_01_018613.php gibson william distrust that particular flavor 18613@http://www.bookslut.com/ nonfiction 2012-01-29T20:25:20+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2012_01_018612.php I could not sleep with Johannes Göransson's Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate close to my head. I dreamt the characters coming to life inside my studio apartment, competing as contestants in an ultimate horror... 18612@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2012-01-29T19:12:01+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2012_01_018611.php gray amelia threats 18611@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2012-01-29T19:06:26+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2012_01_018610.php houellebecq michel map and the territory 18610@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2012-01-29T18:41:02+00:00