By Andrea Walker April 23, 2009 Maud Newton's funny, moving novel excerpt about an ex-preacher mother who becomes obsessed with collecting birds.
Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs, for instance, is a steadily intelligent novel (excerpted in VICE) about the long-term effects of a terrorist bombing in Delhi.
Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs, for instance, is a steadily intelligent novel (excerpted in VICE) about the long-term effects of a terrorist bombing in Delhi.
236.com, a comedy news site, has folded some of its favorite claims — Spitzer liked to watch; he wore calf-length black socks — into a romance-novel excerpt that might hold its own alongside some of the books on our mass-market best-seller list.
There's a lot of this bygone New Zealand in "Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories," the latest in a series of posthumous publications of Frame's work that has included poetry, a novel and excerpts from interviews and letters.
The dataset consisted of video feeds of undiagnosed volunteers performing the following tasks: vowel pronunciation, solving a task out loud, counting from 1 to 10, reading novel excerpts, singing, and describing a specific scene displayed in pictorial form.
On average, of the fifty or more pieces of fiction we publish a year, three to five are novel excerpts.
What's the New Yorker's ratio of novel excerpts to short stories these days?
The pieces range from poetry to personal history to novel excerpts to science fiction to exercises in Hegelian philosophy.
The lifelong irony was distinctive --"De Vriesian," one would like to say--and can be followed down the rich trail of casuals, reviews, Talk stories, poems and novel excerpts that he contributed to this magazine between 1939 and 1986.
