Friday: listen, look, read, party, move
Leonard Lopate had George Saunders, Vendela Vida and Zadie Smith on his radio show this week, and luckily WNYC has put it online. Smith has edited a new anthology —…
Category Archives: online
can you tell I’m at my office hours?
The National Book Critics Circle has announced its awards finalists. The most entertaining read is Lizze Skurnick’s liveblogging. Most interesting/unsurprising news of the nominees? Joyce Carol Oates is up for…
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…
Giddyup roundup
Bookfox likes Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy… who reads in Pittsburgh this Friday. The Millions has begun its year in reading 2007. It’s an addictive, wonderful, hideous way of expanding…
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…
100 Notable
The New York Times has printed 100 Notable Books for 2007. I’ve read 5, including Ian MacEwan’s slender On Chesil Beach, the hefty Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, and…
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…
Demented and sad, but social
Florida State hosts an entirely calm talk by Barry Hannah, who hurled a knife mid-lecture when he visited the school in ’80s (and that was ony the beginning). (via) I’ll…
