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Julian Barnes's new short story "Homage to Hemingway" is published in the July 4, 2011 issue of The New Yorker (pp. 60-65). Online subscribers have access to the story through the New Yorker digital archive or via their iPads.

Julian Barnes reviews Nature Stories by Jules Renard for the London Review of Books 33.13 (30 June 2011): 23-24.


From the Review:
I own two photographs of Jules Renard (1864-1910). There is no indication of when either of them was taken, and at times I have wondered if they are really of the same man. In the first, from a series called 'Nos contemporains chez eux', he sits at a cluttered desk;

Two new books about the works of Julian Barnes were recently published. Both treatments add to the growing scholarly treatment of Barnes's work. Table of contents can be viewed on the Julian Barnes Website.

Sebastian Groes & Peter Childs, Eds.Julian Barnes (Contemporary Critical Perspectives)Continuum, 2011. Pp. 192
From the Publisher:
Julian Barnes is one of the most admired British writers of

The David Cohen Prize for Literature 2011 has been awarded to the English novelist, essayist and short story writer Julian Barnes for his lifetime's achievement in literature. Visit the award website for more information and visit the Front Row website to listen to an interview with Julian Barnes and Mark Lawson.

Julian Barnes is one of England's foremost fiction writers. Shortlisted on three

Julian Barnes reads 'The Revival' for the Vintage Podcast 5.

In the Vintage New Year Podcast they've turned the spotlight on their editors and asked them to give us a sneak preview of the books we can look forward to in 2011. Alex Clark talks to Brighton Rock director Rowan Joffe, Susan Hill reads from A Kind Man, Anthony Quinn talks about his new novel Half of the Human Race, Julian Barnes

" 'Under the briskness, he was a softie'." Observer, 26 December 2010 [A tribute to Anthony Howard, Julian's editor at the New Statesman].
From the piece:My job interview with Anthony Howard at the New Statesman in 1977 did not go as expected. I was summoned to his office prepared for interrogation on my literary and editorial skills, not to mention my political tendencies. The job as

Julian Barnes
Homage to Switzerland, by Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

'I chose Ernest Hemingway because he is deeply out of fashion, still over-admired by the literary boys-with-toys brigade, still shunned by women readers put off by the macho myth. His style is wrongly thought to be both simple and imitable; it is neither. His novels are better known than his stories, but it is in the latter

An excerpt from Julian Barnes's novel Flaubert's Parrot makes an appearance in Birds of Prey: Seven Sardonic Stories, published by Rare Books and Berry in April 2010. Other writers in the collection include Salman Rushdie, Edgar Allan Poe, and Daphne du Maurier.

From the Publisher:

Birds of Prey is an extraordinary anthology that has brought together authors from the past and the present; from

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Julian Barnes's new short story "Harmony" was published in Granta 109: Work.You may order a copy of the issue online at the Granta website or on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

And on the first anniversary of John Updike's death, Barnes publishes "Sleeping with John Updike" in The Guardian, 23 January 2010.