A Millions year in reading
Max has been posting a plethora of people’s read-in-2006 favorites — and it seems nobody can pick just one. Books by Philip Roth, Julio Cortazar, Elizabeth Gaskell, jazzman Art Pepper,…
Category Archives: on books
The old film kind
Last time I was on a cross-country trip I found myself in Nephi, Utah (pop. 5,000) with time to kill. I went walking and found the Nephi museum, staffed by…
Hey, you. New girl.
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S to YA author Cecil Castellucci on the launch of her first comic book, The P.L.A.I.N….
A reading assignment
Not so long ago my Litblog Coop cohorts nominated a set of books for the first Read This! selection of 2007. We’d love it if you joined us in our…
Who’s your pharmacist?
I’m hesitatant to read all these Pynchon reviews that are hitting the streets, because I’ve just barely begun reading Against the Day, but I couldn’t resist taking a look at…
Hooray for Richard Powers!
The Reuters report on the National Book Awards is online. It’s nice to have a sentence or two from winner Richard Powers (a few more sentences, uttered just yesterday; and…
Morning considered
Zyzzyva: also a type of weevil, as your basic Trader Joe’s grocery bagger knows. Who knew? Epilepsy and transcendence (via). Nabakov: druggie, loony or just plain novelist? NaNoWriMo: nay, nay,…
Stephen Elliott podcast
Feeling literary and thinking about the election? Just in time, it’s Steve Elliott on Pinky’s Paperhaus. He talks about Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction, which he edited, and…
Everybody’s talkin’
Chimamanda (Half of a Yellow Sun) Ngozi Adichi is interviewed at The Morning News. John (The Sea) Banville is interviewed at Village (via). Brian (The Open Curtain) Evensen is interviewed…
Richard Ford: thumbs up, mostly.
An interesting split on the new Richard Ford book, The Lay of the Land. LA Times book review editor David Ulin can’t make up his mind about it, while the…
