"Bookclub-in-a-Box" Discusses the Novel 'The Namesake' by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bookclub-In-A-Box)
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The guests included Mukesh Ambani, Michael Bloomberg, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Deepak Chopra, Katie Couric, Bobby Jindal, Deval Patrick, Fareed Zakraria, Sanjay Gupta, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jeffrey Katzenenberg. AR Rahman performed. Wish we could see a video of that.
Today With President Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
As usual, Michelle Obama uses tonight's State dinner as an opportunity to teach. Michelle speaks to young women who are part of the White House Leadership and Mentoring Program on the history and protocol surrounding State and Official Visits. Tonight's dinner is in honor of Prime Minister Singh of India. For details on the din din menu itself, visit ObamaFoodORama . Jennifer Hudson is performing,...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Laura van den Berg’s debut collection manages to establish an equilibrium between concept and poignancy. It doesn’t appear she trained to be a realist, but she may end up a champion of the movement.
Hayden's Ferry Review Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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) | 23/11/2009
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...
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