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Authors@Google: Salman Rushdie

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Effluvia favorite Salman Rushdie discusses The Enchantress of Florence

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Effluvia Magazine: Call For Submissions

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Effluvia Magazine is issuing a rolling call for submissions. Poetry and prose (fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction / memoir) will be considered. Please limit your submissions to fifteen pages in length and include a short bio with your work. Book reviews and literary interviews are also welcome. Thank you for your interest.

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Barney Rosset

Friday, February 24, 2012

Effluvia mourns the passing of larger-than-life literary figure Barney Rosset who ran one of our favorite presses, Grove, for decades and published some of the most important titles in 20th century American literature. Barney Rosset, the flamboyant, provocative publisher who helped change the course of publishing in the United States, bringing masters like Samuel Beckett [...]

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DFW’s “The Pale King” Now on Shelves!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel “The Pale King” is being sold before it’s publication date of April 15th (tax day). The NYT writes, “To publicize the release of ‘The Pale King,’ a posthumously published novel by David Foster Wallace that is set in an Internal Revenue Service processing center, Hachette Book Group created a marketing [...]

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Optimal Direction

Thursday, March 24, 2011

by Kevin Casey “A director is a kind of idea and taste machine; a movie is a series of creative and technical decisions, and it’s the director’s job to make the right decisions as frequently as possible.” – Stanley Kubrick There you go, a probabilistic definition of film direction, taken from none other then the [...]

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