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This Week in Indie Books (7/26/10-7/30/10)

New Paris Review editor Lorin Stein announced on Facebook that he will personally apologize and offer full fees to de-accepted Paris Review poets, as well as the opportunity to appear on the Paris Review Daily.

Tao Lin was arrested for trespassing in the NYU Bookstore. Gawker published his full account of the experience.

“Tao?” said a 55-year-old man. “Are you Tao?”

“Yes,” I said after a second.

“Tao Lin? Are you Tao Lin?”

“Yes,” I said, weakly thinking he was maybe “a fan” of my books.

“You’re Tao Lin?”

“Yes,” I said, a little confused, and thought maybe he was here to deliver a message to me, like maybe [I stopped thinking at this point].

James Kaelen’s Zero Emission Book Tour rolls into its fourth week.

Aaron Burch, Amelia Gray and others’ High Emission Book Tour just gets started.

We reviewed Nox by Anne Carson.

Jonathan Ames snuck into a showing of The Phantom of the Opera.

“Delicately-ousted” former Mississippi Review editor Frederick Barthelme launches Rick Magazine .

But what’s next for the Mississippi Review?

David Markson’s personal library is being sold — some books as cheap as $1 — at The Strand Bookstore in NYC.

A student evaluation written in 1987 by David Foster Wallace was published. “She articulated herself very well: other students learned from her.”

Some tips from Jackie Corley at Word Riot on how to be a publisher. “Do one thing and do it well.”

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James Yeh (b. 1982) is a writer, editor, and occasional DJ. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in NOON, PEN America, Vice, The Rumpus, and the anthology 30 Under 30 (Starcherone Books, 2011). A founding ...

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