The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
We’ve received a few requests from listeners asking us how they can get DVD-ROMs of the show. And since Christmas shopping has started, and some of you out there may be on the lookout for a literary stocking stuffer, we’ve decided to begin offering DVD-ROMs of the first 250 shows of The Bat Segundo [...]
Sequenza21/ (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Gabriel Kahane performs Thursday, 9 October with Rob Moose at the Cornelia St. Café (8:00pm, doors; 8:30 Diane Birch, opening; 9:30 Gabe). This week, Gabriel and I exchanged some e-mail Q&A. The conversation got pretty deep. –David Salvage DS: Gabriel, I’m enjoying your album [Untitled Debut]. I’m wondering, as I listen, what non-musical sources of [...]
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Sign up to win a HARD COVER edition of The Emperor’s Children, by Claire Messud Drawing will be held October 19th, 2008 Messud’s wonderful novel was a New York Times Most Notable Book in 2006. I read it in December of 2007 and loved it (read my review). I’m giving away my hard cover copy of this [...]
The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The first 200 shows of The Bat Segundo Show are now available in torrent form. There were initially six torrent packs that were released last year. But a hard drive crash wiped those files. I have repacked the first six packs, and added four more. You can download these files using [...]
sans everything (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Over at Maclean’s, Paul Wells is showing his literary side. He has a piece on the controversy over The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, edited by Jane Urquhart. Despite its title the anthology contains a weird mix of material, not all of which is made up of short stories, which has caused consternation among the [...]
Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
At the Wednesday launch of The Wall Street Journal’s new luxury magazine, editor Robert Thomson noted how journalists were flocking to Dow Jones, writes Matt Haber of the New York Observer. Haber writes, “Ms. Gaudoin was introduced by Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and editor in chief of Dow Jones & Company, [...]
Other Stories (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
People can be cruel sometimes. I leapt with glee upon Mortification: Writers' Stories of their Public Shame and quickly devoured this collection of anecdotes in which novelists and poets recount their most humilating moments. It's very, very funny. Favourite anecdotes:...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
He’s been called hip, sexy and likened to a rock star. But the key to Obama’s mystique is his earnest geekiness and sobriety.
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
by Paul Auster Faber and Faber, £14.99
KR Blog (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
We’re long past the first wave of beach reading lists, and I’m wondering what others are toting around this summer. At our hostel in Vieques, Puerto Rico, I went straight to the community shelf where guests leave their sandy fiction. Mucho Anita Shreve. Janet Evanovich, check. But I found some less expected fare: Junot Díaz’s [...]
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 16/01/2008
The Vox Pop Sudari blog lists their favorite things from 2007 and notes the top read : Septembers of Shiraz , probably my favorite novel of the lot, is the story of a middle class Iranian Jew imprisoned by the Revolutionary Guard in 1980s Tehran and his family. A prodigious first novel by Dalia Sofer, it suffers from a lousy title for the U.S. market, but one that comes clear in an ending scene that...
Absolut Noise (Free subscription) | 28/12/2007
2007 is not over yet. Here is the AbsNoise 2007 Quizz, part five. No need to look for an mp3, there is none. But if you're curious you might find some stuff that you did not know and that you're gonna like, thanks to the links... (NB : no translation in French this time). My guests today : Christian Kjellvander, Samuraj Cities, Dear Euphoria, Le Sport, Karin Ström, Soviac, The Exploding Boy, Pacific!,...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/10/2007
Jane Urquhart chooses U.S.-born Claire Messud along with Vincent Lam and Barbara Gowdy for a new short stories book.
Down Under (Free subscription) | 02/09/2007
This was the week the clouds broke. Following what seemed like weeks of gray, the sun emerged, gracing Melbourne with blue skies and light. September 1st was the first day of Spring. North American readers will have a hard time with that. It is a bizarre notion for me and I’ve [...]
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 01/09/2007
A book excerpt by Claire Messud.
