Happy birthday to Emily Dickinson.

“I’ve been sending since 1963. That’s fifty years of rejections.” – Stephen Dixon talks to The Rumpus.

Richard Cohen is writing a Nora Ephron biography. Ummmm…

Laura van den Berg lists her six favorite unconventional mystery novels.

Ted Gioia reviews Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries.

What are your 2013 debut novels of the year?

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