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fromDefector
2 days ago

Stephen Fishbach's Reality-TV Novel Is More Reality TV Than Novel | Defector

Colonial travelogues were heavily edited and censored by publishers, creating uncertainty about authenticity that Swift satirized and modern reality television echoes today.
fromThe Washington Post
4 days ago

Len Deighton, bestselling spy novelist with wry take on espionage, dies at 97

Unlike the agents created by writers such as Ian Fleming, John le Carré and Graham Greene - characters who moved in the upper echelons of the intelligence field - the nameless protagonist of Mr. Deighton's early spy novels was a working-class man who indulged in insolence and wisecracks as he set out to pull defectors from behind the Iron Curtain, root out moles and thwart criminal madmen.
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fromKqed
3 months ago

What Was on Jane Austen's Nightstand? 'The White Lotus' of Its Time

Jane Austen engaged with contemporary urban culture and the picturesque; Doctor Syntax's satirical vogue waned but is being revived through a modern critical edition.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Cameo by Rob Doyle review a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era

Perky, satirical portrait centred on a globe-trotting Dublin figure whose sensational life—crime, drugs, sex, espionage—and pettiness lampoon contemporary literary culture and celebrity.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Loren Ipsum by Andrew Gallix review chronically funny satire of the literary scene

Loren Ipsum uses a murder premise to satirize vanity, pretension, and performative culture among contemporary writers, critics, and literary scenesters.
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