Saul Bellow: Novels 1956-1964: Seize the Day; Henderson the Rain King; Herzog (Library of America)
Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | yesterday
An angel has a body. Lovers have Lake Erie. You have died. Sometime in the future it will be lavendar. What killed you? It was a process like spongecake. Most likely. It was one century or other. Peaches. A lover. A snowstorm over your vehicle. Does it really matter? You fascinated a few. Are you very particular like a rainbow trout? Even now? Vanished. Fog feels its way along. Around the bank and...
Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
...and therefore they have gone to a charity shop for rehoming. Sob. - The Yiddish Policeman's Ball by Michael Chabon - Lots of Charles Dickens - The collected plays of Brecht - A biography of Brecht - Anything relating to Brecht. I love him, but life it too damned short. - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre - The Victim by Saul Bellow...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
NOVELIST COLUM McCann became the first Irish person to win one of America’s most prestigious literary awards on Wednesday night. McCann’sLet the Great World Spinwas announced as the winner of the National Book Award for fiction at a gala dinner in Manhattan.
Cultural Offering.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Sol Sternberg has a great education article at City Journal about E.D. HIrsch's Cultural Literacy movement - the concept that early in schooling, children need to understand certain Core Knowledge subjects (that the education establishment positively hates): "For example, the Core Knowledge curriculum specifies that in English language arts, all second-graders read poems by Robert Louis Stevenson,Emily...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
A DEAD HAND BY PAUL THEROUX Hamish Hamilton, 263pp, £18.99 Review by ALLAN MASSIE
Skippers Chippers (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
AN AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM: TFC LIVE AT PIANOS TOMORROW NIGHT One last reminder that we're playing the first in a two show series tomorrow night at Pianos. If you go, you'll see a band that includes Marc Dalio on drums, Rich Stein on percussion, Rob Jost on bass, Matt Ray on keys, Noah Lebenzon on guitbox, Flavio Gaete on viola, Katie Scheele on woodwinds, Stan Harrison on sax and flute, Clark Gayton on sackbut,...
Literary Thunder Bay (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I started October reading Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith, one of my favourite mystery writers. His protagonist is Arkady, a Russian police detective and in this book, the wall is down and Moscow is crumbling all around him. I then read Cruz Smith's Havana, which I believe is one of his best. It takes place before the end of Communism in Russia. Arkady is sent to Havana to investigate the murder
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In Granta's special issue on Chicago, Don DeLillo, he who chronicled New York's underbelly in Underworld, pays warm tribute to Nelson Algren.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In 1985, Primo Levi was known in Britain and America for a single book, If This is a Man, his memoir of survival in Auschwitz. Then came The Periodic Table, which arrived in this country garlanded with eulogies from Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.
The Ed Techie (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
In a post about how twitter had changed my ALT-C experience I commented that we needed to find new social behaviours for when we meet people face to face who we know well on twitter. And Jim Groom is always...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
When Sufjan Stevens was asked to write a symphony for New York, he turned to a miserable stretch of road called the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway for inspiration. He tellsANDREW PURCELLwhy
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Today, if I may, and simply because I may, I'd like to point your attention to my favorite book, which is also my favorite kind of book, if by favorite I mean the book I most often pull off my...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
When the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe that...
NarcissusWorks (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
from the forward by Saul Bellow: I was soon aware that in the view of advanced European Thinkers, the cultural expectations of a young man from Chicago, that center of brutal materialism, were bound to be disappointed. Put together the slaughterhouses, the steel mills, the freight yards, the primitive bungalows of the industrial villages that comprised the city, the gloom of the financial district,...
Bookseller Digest UK (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
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