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...Ryan Atwood, kid from wrong side of tracks
...about the present moment in U.S. literary history is that the tough, fibrous membrane that used to separate literary fiction from popular fiction is rupturing. The highbrow and the lowbrow, once kept chastely separate, are now hooking up, which is why we have great, funky, unclassifiable writers like Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, Susanna Clarke and David Mitchell. And like Chabon, who in addition to writing The Final Solution has edited an anthology of hybrid highbrow-lowbrow tales, McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (Vintage; 328 pages). And like Jonathan Lethem, who has just published Men and Cartoons (Doubleday...
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories skews a little trashier but in the best possible way. It has the promiscuous atmosphere of one of those speakeasies where socialites slum with gangsters in an effort to mutually increase everybody's street cred. Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates mingle with the likes of Stephen King and Poppy Z. Brite. The results are remarkably pleasing. Atwood contributes a delicious, melancholy first-person piece about what it's like to be a young girl who turns into a yellow-eyed, red-clawed monster. Mitchell, who was short-listed for this year's Booker...
...DIED. JOHN G. (JACK) MCCLELLAND, 81, flamboyant Canadian publisher who shepherded the careers of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler and many others; in Toronto. Known for his publicity stunts, McClelland once donned a toga with author Sylvia Fraser and rode in a chariot to promote her novel The Emperor's Virgin. "I can usually tell if a manuscript is good," he once said, "but I can't tell...
...Atwood will receive a Doctor of Letters degree today...