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Greg Zimmerman

Greg Zimmerman blogs about contemporary literary fiction at The New Dork Review of Books and holds down a full-time gig as a trade magazine editor. Follow him on Twitter: @NewDorkReview.

When Blurbs Attack, Part 1 (Do Blurbs Matter?)

At a party this past weekend, I watched a dude pick up a lying-around copy of Colum McCann’s Let The ...

Why Magazines Are Thriving (And Will Continue to Thrive)

You couldn’t swing a rolled-up copy of US Weekly last year without hitting an instance of The Power of Print ...

Fun With Bad Sex (Writing)

Nothing is more giggle-inducing than either a horribly written sex scene in an otherwise serious piece of literature, or, alternatively, ...

Beavis & Butt-head and Books

You’re thinking, MTV’s braindead duo in a post about books? Have you gone mad with low-brow-er? Not a bit, bunghole. ...

A Walk Through My Childhood Bookcase

I spent some time at my parents’ house in Ohio this past weekend, and snapped this photo of my childhood ...

Matching Up? Book Quotes and Their Movie Counterparts

Plot-wise, it’s easy to tell when a movie deviates from the book on which it’s based. But is it as ...

A Bookish Compatibility Test

Recently, Book Rioteer Rebecca posted some useful tips on how to join bookshelves when you move in with a significant ...

A Bookish Look at the Best Picture Nominees

As you’re probably aware, the 2012 Oscar nominations were announced this week. And a long-running trend has continued again this ...

Why Books Are EVIL!

Of course, I’m being facetious. Books are not evil. I heart books’ faces (as the parlance of our times would ...

The Time Traveler’s Wife vs. 11/22/63: Comparing Back-In-Timeness

Stephen King’s new time-travel novel 11/22/63 is an enormous hit! It has an average of 4.33 out of 5 stars ...