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…
Category Archives: on books
modern nervous system
Steve Erickson is profiled in the LA Times; his latest, Zeroville, is hitting shelves. “It’s not a Hollywood novel,” Erickson said. “Those tend to be about how movies get made….
Never too late
La Bloga gets with Junot Diaz, on The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, 10 years in the writing: Books are not people. They are never late to the party….
Quick quick quick
How far do you have to go to get to the International Festival of Authors? Oh, it’s in Canada. I can get to Canada, someday. If you must go to…
In good company
On the fair west coast, the LA Times runs my review of The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta today. The New York Times is all over this book, with a…
Reading is fun(damental)
Richard Rayner reviews the Paris Review Interviews II in the LA Times. I wish I could find the promo excerpts I got at BEA — Faulkner was gloriously cranky. Well,…
Get thee to a back room
My dad took a sabbatical when I was 12, which meant we packed up the K Car and all of us — dad and mom and me and younger sis…
NPR’s bookish weekend
In the New York Times Book Review this weekend, Julia Reed found Annie Dillard’s latest, The Maytrees, somewhat inaccessible. There are no mere ragamuffins in Dillard, only a “tatterdemalion”; the…
Everybody dance now
I’ve become marginally obsessed with the 33 1/3 series, despite the fact that none of their authors seem to be headed to Los Angeles. People, I’m here for you. So…
Washing up in the archives
Maybe you’ve been hearing a lot about On Chesil Beach, the new shortish novel from Ian McEwan. Me, I queued up for a copy at BEA — to be signed…
