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A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet. – Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, 1940
Category Archives: on books
Obsessing on The Morning News
Today at the Tournament of Books The Echo Maker went up against The Emperor’s Children and lost. The Echo Maker already won the National Book Award, so I imagine Richard…
The tourney of books begins
In the first matchup at The Morning News, Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tops Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan. One serious novel set in Africa advances — which may…
Grits, corned beef hash and Vollman
Breakfast on the road with wifi is particularly excellent when the LA Times has got a review of Poor People by William T. Vollman: Vollmann’s latest book, “Poor People,” comes…
More ecstatic days
Thanks to Bookfox I now know that Steve Erickson’s got a new website, and a new book — Zeroville — coming out this fall, they say. I’m always ready to…
Read this!
The first LBC Read This! selection of 2007 has just been announced! It’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow. Read all about why you should Read This! at the…
Can the canon
The Sound and the Fury and The Mayor of Casterbridge are two books that have been purged from branch libraries in Fairfax County, Virginia. Why? Because they weren’t being borrowed…
Tom Pynchon, MFA student
My installment in the Against the Day roundtable has been posted up over at Ed’s place, wherein I avoid serious discussion by asking What if Thomas Pynchon had to workshop?…
A good end to ‘06: The End of Mr. Y
With a huge stack of books I’m supposed to be reading, as 2006 drew to a close I escaped to a book that picked up at BEA and just recently…
The underrated writers project
67 wonderful writers are getting a little love for the end of 2006. The Underrated Writers Project is a great place to find writers who aren’t stacked in the window…
