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  • What Singleton does best in "Novel" is fabricate characters from the raw material of his native South.

    Novel Words 2005

  • While "Novel" is southern in nature and style, the reader probably will pause and look up from the book long enough to wonder what psychedelic supplements George Singleton may have been experimenting in during his plot development.

    Novel Words 2005

  • "Novel" is his first novel and reads like a quirky run-on short story.

    Novel Words 2005

  • Because you know, there's this critique that a Black Novel is not Relevant because it's about Blackness, not Humanity.

    "The pitying smirk, the argument runs like clockwork." ellen_datlow 2009

  • And what can it mean to admit that Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel is "thoughtful and informed," but to then condemn it because it "appeals to the mind, not the heart"?

    Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

  • Part of the reason I was excited to read the book was that The Novel is set in similar circumstances (no dome, but a confined small town).

    more Under The Dome angst intertribal 2010

  • Part of the reason I was excited to read the book was that The Novel is set in similar circumstances (no dome, but a confined small town).

    intertribal: more Under The Dome angst intertribal 2010

  • So if we seem a little bit hasty about MS, then its only because her writings give us such a spark of anticipation that we just cant help ourselves. .lol This Novel is just a little icing on the cake and I cant wait for it.

    Twilight Lexicon » Stephenie Meyer Talks About Bree Tanner on Her Website 2010

  • Writer Unboxed gives you all the tips you need for Old Bones, New Flesh: Building a Novel from a Fairy Tale Concept by Juliet [...]

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Old Bones, New Flesh: Building a novel from a fairy tale concept 2009

  • Muddled, disjointed and uncomfortable as it may be, A Russian Novel is also gripping and fascinating, an intimate portrait of a complicated man's inner life and his struggles to find some kind of happiness and fulfilment.

    A Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère – review Josh Lacey 2010

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