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Spot the mistake

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IMG_0734Dan Rhodes is a seasoned veteran when it comes to error-strewn media coverage. This latest nugget is from Publishers Weekly:

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Kent Carroll, publisher at Europa Editions, bought U.S. rights to Dan Rhodes’s story collection, Marry Me, which Canongate acquired in the U.K. The book marks Rhodes’s third work, after his 2000 collection, Anthology, and 2003 novel, Timoleon Vieta Come Home. Europa said the book, set for a January 2014 release, is a “raucously unsentimental look at love and marriage.” Given the timing of the book, Europa is planning a Valentine’s Day–themed marketing approach.

Never mind the five missing books or the erroneously titled debut collection – the good news lurking in there is that our friends at Europa will indeed be publishing Marry Me in the U.S. early next year. So three cheers for them. And we are delighted to have fulfilled our long-cherished ambition of seeing Dan Rhodes in Briefs.

Rhodes is off the road now. He has exclusively contacted us to pass on his thanks to everyone who came along to the gigs, to the people who set them up – Bookslam and the Edinburgh Book Festival – and to the other acts who joined in: Aiden Moffatt! Tim Key! Sam Smith! Stewart Lee! Neil Forsyth! Richard James! It was, he assures us, a pleasure and a privilege.

Rhodes has every intention of keeping a low profile for the rest of the year before exploding back on to the world stage in early 2014, with a bunch of foreign editions and some news that will shake the book world to the core…

Happy reading.

Ten Years of Timoleon

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We’re not 100% sure, but we think this month marks the tenth anniversary of the first publication of Rhodes’ widely misunderstood novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home. It’s close enough, anyway. We were going to mark the occasion by writing an interminable fact file on the subject, but instead of boring ourselves, and you, to tears with that, we’ve decided to reduce our retrospective to a brief breakdown of the book’s thunderous impact on popular culture.

First off, here it is being enjoyed by Frankie out of The Saturdays:

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And being bought by Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up:

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And best of all, here’s Cate Le Bon singing a song about it:

Rumour has it that Rhodes still isn’t quite sure how the book’s title is pronounced. (Note to aspiring authors: make sure you can pronounce the title of your book.) Readers are invited to say it however they want.

That’s enough of past glories – Rhodes’ latest novel, This is Life, is coming out next week in a handsome mass market paperback edition. Read all about it here. So the Eiffel Tower at the top of the page is relevant again.

And we’ve done a vague Marry Me reviews digest here.

Happy reading.