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FILTER RESULTS ►Fairly Muted Charisma
Measured self-effacement has become a sort of unwritten code for writers of a certain prominence, and Jeffrey Eugenides—bestseller, Pulitzer winner, and Oprah’s Book Club inductee—seems to have gotten the memo. Read more ?
Book Club – The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Last minute notice for the quick reader…Book Club will meet at Eddie’s Attic on Monday, January 28th to discuss The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. 7:30pm.
Jeffrey Eugenides’s Killer Advice
What exactly is Eugenides’ “absurdly good advice,” and is it, upon further reflection, in fact “fucking excellent”?
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A Year in Reading: Jeffrey Eugenides
Her new book has kept me up reading at night. Related posts: Wanting it Bad: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides On its face, The Marriage Plot appears to be a... #16: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides At the center of this story Jeffrey Eugenides has placed... Semiotics and Jeffrey Eugenides The semiotics-department backdrop to Jeffrey Eugenides’s new novel, The Marriage...
I Wrote a Chick-Lit Novel
A week ago, Salon.com published an interview with the novelist Jeffrey Eugenides titled, “Jeffrey Eugenides: I don’t know why Jodi Picoult is belly-aching.” Eugenides was asked a question about gender bias in the publishing world (aShow More Summary
The Marriage Playlist
What do Talking Heads, The Smiths, Judas Priest, and Blondie have in common? They’re all featured in the playlist Jeffrey Eugenides made to accompany the paperback release of his latest novel, The Marriage Plot. The Spotify list is chock full of songs “Madeline, Leonard, and Mitchell might have been listening to in the early 1980s.” [...]Show More Summary
Jeffrey Eugenides on Female Authors and Jodi Picoult’s ‘Belly-Aching’ [Notable/quotable]
Salon's David Daley had a little chit-chat with Jeffrey Eugenides' rakish mustache about the state of literary fiction, how it is that the The Marriage Plot had the Pulitzer Prize door slammed in its face, and what Jodi Picoult is always complaining about, jeez. More »
Jeffrey Eugenides Is Not A Homophobe, Idiots
The joke is as benign as the periodic announcement I make that I am straight for Steve Buscemi. It does no violence to gay people that Jeffrey Eugenides made a clumsily delivered tongue and cheek aside that sort of implies we would be straight if the opposite sex was hotter
College Taught Jeffrey Eugenides That Porn Has Nothing to Do with Real-Life Sex [Notable/quotable]
Author and pirate facial hair pattern aficionado Jeffrey Eugenides recently offered college students some off-to-school advice about all the sexy hijinks they think they're about to get into. As someone who was once young and in college,...Show More Summary
The Myth Surrounding College Sex
Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, reflects: The signal event of my first-year orientation was the showing of an X-rated film called "Debbie Does Dallas." This was long before porn had gone mainstream on the...
New in paperback: 'The Marriage Plot'
Jeffrey Eugenides' novel gets four stars. Also, 'The Real Romney'; Ken Follett's 'Fall of Giants'; 'Just My Type'
Read David Foster Wallace on How ‘Sickly Searingly’ Jealous He Was of Jonathan Franzen
We already know about the complicated friendships between David Foster Wallace and his famous friends — Mary Karr, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Mark Leyner — but in this excerpt from D.T. Max’s forthcoming biography Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, we get a glimpse into a Wallace wracked by self-doubt [...]
Vogue Dressed Up Jeffrey Eugenides and Junot Diaz for an Edith Wharton Spread [Mag Hag]
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Exclusive: The First Lines of Zadie Smith’s NW
There's a lot for readers to look forward to in the second-half of the year, and high up on the list is Zadie Smith's first novel in seven years, NW.
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Pun titles for the win
In which Jami Attenberg (whose forthcoming The Middlesteins made it to our big 2012 second half books preview) discusses the outright mockery of Jeffrey Eugenides’s pseudo-famous vest in the web advertising campaign (which–full disclosure–also ran on The Millions) for Jennifer Weiner’s The Next Best Thing: “Hit Me with Your Vest Shot.” Related posts: Tweet to [...]Show More Summary
The Next Vest Thing in Author Ads
Jennifer Weiner spoofs Jeffrey Eugenides in an ad for her new novel.
Truth belongs to love alone
The “religious-seeking novel,” as Ruth Franklin calls it, has been making a splash recently. Roland Merullo’s The Talk-Funny Girl, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters, Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot, and most recently Christopher R. Show More Summary
Jennifer Weiner Dons Jeffrey Eugenides’ Famous Vest to Promote Her New Book
You may remember a little bit of literary hubbub last fall when Jeffrey Eugenides’ enormous billboard went up in NYC’s Times Square — featuring the author doing his best sexy stare in a wind-blown vest under the words “swoon-worthy.” Well, best-selling author Jennifer Weiner has just launched a hilarious campaign for her new book, The [...]
Exclusive: The First Lines of Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue
We're already looking ahead to a number of exciting titles coming this fall, and near the top of that list is Michael Chabon's new novel Telegraph Avenue.
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The Barbarity of the Present
Jeffrey Eugenides says you must read Donald Antrim’s unjustly overlooked novel, “Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World.”
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- Cannes Film Festival
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