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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.

Top Five AWOL Novelists: Was It Something I Said?

You know what would be kind of awesome? If cream-‘o’-the-crop novelists like Jonathan Franzen, Haruki Murakami and Jeffrey Eugenides published ...

PUB DAY: Zone One, by Colson Whitehead

Though Colson Whitehead is an accomplished novelist and an insightful essayist (19,000 words on the World Series of Poker!), I’d ...

GENRE KRYPTONITE: Vince Flynn — A Poor Man’s Tom Clancy

We thought Kit’s post about the genres we have an inexplicable weak spot for was so inspired that we thought ...

PUB DAY: The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides

Here’s an unusual, slightly silly way to tell how popular a modern novel is: Check its Wikipedia page. If the ...

The Cursed Dearth of Literary Sports Novels

A few weeks ago, Chad Harbach’s debut novel The Art of Fielding was excerpted in Sports Illustrated. I couldn’t tell ...

President Obama, Read Whatever You Want

Salon.com recently published an op/ed written by a short-story author named Robin Black, titled “President Obama: Why don’t you read ...