Jhumpa Lahiri: The Master Storyteller: A Critical Response to Interpreter of Maladies
Hayden's Ferry Review Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The HUB-BUB residency, based out of Spartanburg, South Carolina, is an 11-month opportunity for emerging young visual artists and creative writers between the ages of 20 and 35; the program allows three visual artists and one writer to "live free and create" for a year while working for a grassroots community arts movement. Residents receive a beautiful, rent-free apartment and bi-monthly...
HispanicTrending (Free subscription) | yesterday
November 22, 2009 By ANNE MORRIS This ambitious anthology brings together 85 writings by American immigrants from 45 countries. Arranged chronologically, the letters, stories, articles and poems extend from 1623 to the present. The earliest ones, by Phyllis Wheatley, John James Audubon and St. John Crèvecoeur, often have a schoolbook feel, like a reading assignment for an American history class...
Eve's Alexandria (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and peanuts and onions in a bowl. For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realise, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a constant...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The English-language bookstore on Paris' left bank, Shakespeare and Company, has been a draw for generations of expatriate writers. That goes for both its first iteration, owned by Sylvia Beach, who was the original publisher of James Joyce's "Ulysses," and...
No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
For anyone who missed Stephen’s excellent reading of T. Coraghessan Boyle’s hilariously dark short story, “The Lie” on Public Radio International’s Selected Shorts series last year, now is your chance to rectify that oversight. According to their introductory message, Symphony Space Live invites you to sample the following (internal links omitted): Each week you’ll...
Song of a Reformed Headhunter (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The Asian American Writers' Workshop expanded its annual awards ceremony into a literary festival. The one-day event took place yesterday at the Powerhouse Arena, in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Two separate readings took place at every hour from 11 AM to 6 PM. I attended the 4 PM session "Sex and the Cities: Stories of Love & the Metropolis" with readings by Hari Kunzru, Monique Truong and Mort...
Secondhand Smoking Jacks (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Here are the books my book club selected for the 2009-2010 year: Nov: The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud Dec: Sula, Toni Morrison Jan: Dracula, Bram Stoker (in the designated slot for a classic) Feb: Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell Mar: Bel Canto, Ann Patchett Apr: Three Novels: Nathan + two others, Wendell Berry May: Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri June: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David...
Open Book (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
1. This first line is from 'Year's End,' one of eight short stories in Jhumpa Lahiri's book Unaccustomed Earth. This title was named one of the best books of 2008 by the New York Times Book Review for good reason....
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Asian American Literary Award in fiction has gone to Jhumpa Lahiri for her short story collection, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH , with Leslie Chang taking the nonfiction award for FACTORY GIRLS: From Village to City in a Changing China.
A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
On Saturday, October 17, 2009--Greenlight Bookstore flung open its doors to the lucky residents of Fort Greene in the borough of Brooklyn. To celebrate this new independent bookstore in our city as well as 10 Years of the NYRB Classics...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] An early encounter with Ray Bradbury's "A Sound Of Thunder" led to Anil Menon to both science...
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The Millions blog recently decided to find out which books are the very best so far of this millenium. They created two lists — one with reader favorites and one with the favorites of “experts.” I double-starred (**) the titles I read (and loved) and single-starred (*) the titles I tried to read, but didn’t [...] Another great post from: BOOK CLUB CLASSICS! Thanks for visiting...
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Sunday, November 8 All day: Harvard Book Store ’s annual frequent buyer sale. Customers who have signed up for a Frequent Buyer Card BEFORE November 8th will be eligible to receive 20% off all purchases of new, used and bargain books, as well as data-based Print on Demand titles and non-book items throughout the store. Monday, November 9 12:00 pm, UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room...
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Discover the literature of a foreign country you are not much familiar with. I plan to see if I can find some English translations of Indian writers while I am in India, because my reading of Indian literature consists of a prose retelling of the stories told in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and a handful of books by Indian women writers who write in English*. When this posts (I am posting this...
The Patient's Doctor (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Medicine In Translation | Psychology Today : "I see the doctor as a translator. For most people, medicine is a foreign country, with its own language, customs, and mores. My patients are immigrants to this country, and many feel very disoriented. My job, as their physician, is to translate this alien world for them, to help them acclimatize and hopefully thrive. Jhumpa Lahiri used a beautiful...
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