Tag Archives: on books

66 degrees. thank you, global warming.

Record-breaking heatwave here in Pittsburgh. It was 66 yesterday! Woohoo! Another record-breaker: AWP sold out. While last year I simply walked in and paid at the door, this year the…

To the 2 to the 0 to the 0 to the 8

David Kipen has Twain on the brain: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. 5 Chapters kicks off with…

good guys and troublemakers

The coolest thing I’ve read all day: Mark Sarvas’s first novel is funny and sad, rueful, wised-up and curiously moving. A remarkable debut. – John Banville, winner of the Man…

A quickie roundup

Hankering for the encyclopedia of country music or a very fine atlas? Oxford University Press is on sale for xmas at Amazon. Mark’s in favor of the NBCC best recommended…

Four little cents

Not only do I support the striking Hollywood writers, I also support the LAist’s amazing coverage of the strike and all its odd side stories. They’ve got personal stories and…

Screens and snow

That’s the view from my office this morning. Snow. Just a flurry, but snow nonetheless. If you have concerns about the film adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera,…

Thursday already?

Bloggers barnstorm the National Book Awards: Jason Boog with video, Ed with podcasts & blogging, even Sarah on Twitter. Joan Didion on Norman Mailer: “There was someone who really truly…

And the Mailer-less book world turns

Christopher Sorrentino reviews Steve Erickson’s Zeroville for the LA Times. Will Zeroville make the best-of-07 lists? Not PW’s, which published its long, pretty good list on Nov. 5. Premature, or…

O’Nan and Pancake and Lee, oh my

Monday: Stewart O’Nan reads in the evening at Pitt, in the 5th floor room where we have workshop, featuring arching gothic windows and the occasional wintry breeze. Afterwards a few…

present and accounted for

Stewart O’Nan is coming to Pitt in a couple of weeks; today he’s interviewed at the NBCC blog. Find out what Last Night at the Lobster has in common with…