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1. Sundance’s 2017 New Frontier VR Program Offers Plenty of Animated Projects

See what's new in vr at Sundance's New Frontiers program for 2017.

The post Sundance’s 2017 New Frontier VR Program Offers Plenty of Animated Projects appeared first on Cartoon Brew.

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2. Indie Booksellers Choice Awards Winners Unveiled

The winners of the first annual Indie Booksellers Choice Awards have been announced.

The following five books were selected by independent booksellers: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books), The Instructions by Adam Levin (McSweeney’s), The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled), Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (Grove/Atlantic), and Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr (Akashic).

The five winning titles will be displayed in participating independent bookstores throughout the country. Comedian David Rees hosted the awards ceremony at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City.

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3. Adam Levin Wins NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award

Last night, writer Adam Levin was named the winner of this year’s New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award for The Instructions. The award includes $10,000 in prize money.

Levin’s 1,000-page title was released in November 2010. The image embedded above showcases the book’s three different covers. McSweeney’s will publish his short story collection, Hot Pink, later this year.

Library Lion Ethan Hawke hosted last night’s ceremony. Levin’s fellow nominees included John Brandon‘s Citrus County, Patricia Engel Vida, Suzanne Rivecca‘s Death is Not an Option, and Teddy Wayne‘s Kapitoil. (via Doree Shafrir)

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4. Behind the writing of The Instructions

Adam Levin discusses some novels that influenced him. The Roth and Wallace are no surprise, but it was a revelation to find Kosinski’s (riveting, controversial) The Painted Bird on the list.

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5. Holy warrior? More on Adam Levin’s The Instructions

Joshua Cohen characterizes The Instructions as “a very long joke … that lacks a punch line.” I can see not buying the voice, but, for whatever my goyishe perspective is worth, I completely disagree with his reading.

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6. Adam Levin, profiled

Like the narrator of his new novel, The Instructions, Adam Levin “wanted to be the Jewish Messiah” as a kid. “I could beat up everyone in my grade,” he says. (Via.)

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