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What’s Best and What’s Sexist -- Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes After reading this (and some of the linked pieces) I'm persuaded that the answer is YES. There is a bias for novels that feature a male protagonist fighting against a culture/world where the rules are defined by women. A week or so back, Andrew Seal spent some time testing an argument by literary scholar Nina...
German Joys (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
For reasons that have never really been clear to me, Paul Auster seems to be Europe's favorite contemporary American writer. Perhaps it's down to his heavy-lidded, writerly good looks, or because his last name means 'oyster' in German, or because...
Ill Seen, Ill Said (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Oh, Paul Auster. You fill me with wonder. Even though you constantly like to remind me that I'm reading a book, that I should not take the words on the page at face value, that you're going to tie me up in knots, I always get sucked in and let you do it. I always fall for your characters, I always love it when you debunk my expectations and hopes. There's a coolness to your approach, but such a warmth...
the hackneyist (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A Collaborative Show ; Henrik Potter / Surya Buck Curated by ; Alistair Wildblood / Eugenia Ivanissevich Opens ; Friday 11th December 6-9pm Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th December 2-6pm then by appointment 14th-16th December Henrik Potter " he had answered the question by asking another question, and therefore everything remained open, unfinished, to be started again. I lost my way after the first...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
In this week’s New Yorker, James Wood critiques Paul Auster, while his sometime-subject Don DeLillo offers refreshingly offbeat short fiction.
Whisky Prajer (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Uh-oh . For what it's worth, I think Wood is just about right on the money. However, for some readers (including, at one point , me) Auster's plain-faced sincerity (which Wood finds banal with clichés) is quite charming.
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Paul Auster with Michael Wood: Writers At Work Live Interview on September 3, 2002 at the 92nd Street Y.
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Invisible , Paul Auster's newest and perhaps most accomplished book, is a suspenseful, psychological query on the natures of art and life, good and evil, and truth and memory. The story begins with Adam Walker, a bright-eyed aspiring poet at Columbia University in 1967, but quickly delves into a four-decade, multi-layered saga full of sexuality, violence, philosophical puzzles, and unpredictable resolutions....
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Roger Phaedo had not spoken to anyone for ten years. He confined himself to his Brooklyn apartment, obsessively translating and retranslating the same short passage from Rousseau’s “Confessions.” A decade earlier, a mobster named Charlie Dark had attacked Phaedo and his wife. Phaedo was beaten to . . .
AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Soundwalk NYC Bronx Hip Hop (EN) 1.2 Category: Travel Price: $1.99 -> Free ( iTunes ) Description: SOUNDWALK BRONX HIP HOP SOUNDWALK Soundwalks are audio tours that use the cityscape as a backdrop for a fiction, like in a movie. You can escort Virginie Ledoyen through a romantic flanerie at the steps of musician Benjamin Biolay’s in Saint-Germain-des-Prés... Paul Auster evokes the...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Late November brings work of another favorite Madrileño to the forefront. The final book of Javier Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, will be published at the end of the month by New Directions. The incomparable Marias will make two New York appearances, a reading at the 92nd St Y (with Paul Auster) [...]
Whisky Prajer (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The “novel of ideas” is highly feted by the smarty-pants set, but I’ve usually had trouble finishing one. Those few that I’ve read to completion fall considerably short of my “desert island” list. Paul Auster , whose Moon Palace still resides near the top of said list, failed to impress me with his New York Trilogy ( A ) — City Of Glass was, I thought, especially...
fait accompli (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Contradicta Information plus passion=knowledge; information minus passion= document * * * Success consists of 1% holding forth and 99% holding back. * * * * * Contradicta Feelings are the language of experience; words tell us what the world wants-and needs- from us and are maps to what we want and need from the world. * * * Silence in response to biting words helps make thought into a kind of music....
Breaking the Fourth Wall (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Dreamers of the Day : I think Mary Doria Russell is one of the best authors around. Usually, I like an author for a book or two, but then it becomes clear that all of their books have a general style that I'm done with. That's why I'm always stumped when people ask me my favorite authors. I rarely read everything an author writes. But Mary Doria Russell has written a group of books that seem to have...
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