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...Sister Ray” floating just below the surface on “Fuckbook.” At the same time, Condo Fucks invoke a sonic mantle more recently taken up by lo-fi revivalists like No Age, Abe Vigoda and Times New Viking??the latter even features a track called “Times New Viking Vs. Yo La Tengo” on their latest album. This last point is more coincidence than self-conscious imitation, though; “Fuckbook” is the sound of a band concerned first and foremost with having fun.But...
According to a grumbling few, Marisha Pessl’s tangled debut novel “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” does not deserve to be published. Certain critics and blogsters credit the unusually pretty author—and her jacket photo—for capturing publisher Viking??s attention...
Pursuing legal action seemed like a good idea at the time. After all, her manuscript Blood Eternal, which is about vampires who operate a car service in the suburbs of New Jersey, had languished “for about nine months” in Penguin Viking??s editorial offices. She originally sent it to a sympathetic Penguin editor she met at a Chicago book fair. This Starobin booster switched jobs before any Blood Eternal progress was made and her replacement had no interest in unagented horror from an unknown author. Starobin finally got her manuscript back and, disappointed...
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