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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Some book-related links: Winnipeg women’s group sends more than 5,000 books to Nunavut (Winnipeg Free Press) Is sci-fi too nostalgic? (i09.com) Robotic librarian wreaks havoc dispenses books in rural California (The Sacramento Bee) Library patron barred over “lost” Looney Tunes DVD (Chicago Tribune) Zadie Smith on E.M. Forster (New York Review of Books) Can fan fiction help us read Moby Dick? [...]...
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ARLT Weblog (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Robert McCrum The Observer, Sunday August 24 2008 Article history Mary Beard says she has wanted to write about Pompeii for ‘about 30 years’, ever since she travelled there as an undergraduate with a passion [...]
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Talking Squid (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
At the risk of becoming hopelessly recursive, I’d like to direct you to the New York Review of Books, in particular, Zadie Smith’s review of E.M. Forster’s collected BBC book reviews. What caught my eye was Zadie Smith’s great opening paragraph: In the taxonomy of English writing, E.M. Forster is not an exotic creature. We file [...]
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El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Cindylu is right, Oscar Wao is straight-up addictive. It captures the turn-of-the-millenium, multi-culti, global reality of right now through the lens of Dominican New Jersey. Many people call this Oscar’s novel, but Oscar - the fat lonely kid in high school we all felt sorry for, but nevertheless always avoided - is only one of a [...]
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Quiet Bubble (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
I’ve been missing my Monday deadline for the last couple of weeks, but it’s because I’ve been working on some other deadlines (for pay), about which I’ll post more when the time comes. But don’t fret. I’ve been doing plenty...
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The Written Word (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Have you ever seen the blog My Friend Amy? I hadn’t stumbled upon it until today and found that she will be hosting the Book Bloggers Appreciation Week (BBAW) in September. It looks like a fun way to celebrate the book blogging community. As she points out, book bloggers are inherently a wonderful, caring and fun group, so [...]
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What's Next? (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
One of the many nice things about being on holiday is the chance to spend prolonged periods of time sitting in the sun and reading. Here’s what I read in the past 8 days. Irvine Welsh, Crime - A (sensitive and careful, for Welsh) delve into the frightening and disturbing world of paedophilia. It’s quite a [...]
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Bookninja (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
The Telegraph has a longish essay (for a newspaper) by Zadie Smith on the new Kafka that’s emerging from the legend. But if we’re not to read Kafka too Brodly, how are we to read him? We might do worse than read him Begley. Gently sceptical of the [...]
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan. About the book, from the publisher:Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding and already internationally acclaimed debut introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as its closely guarded secrets are slowly peeled away. When Chellam, the family's rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed
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Sounds & Fury (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
In his collection of essays on criticism and art, The Sacred Wood (1920), T.S. Eliot wrote in the essay titled, "Tradition and the Individual Talent",...
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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Again, the current issue of The New York Review of Books features one splendid fiction writer's meditations on another brilliant fiction writer Last his time, it was Eisenberg on Nádas ; this time it's Zadie Smith considering the critical legacy of E.M. Forster , who provided the inspiration for On Beauty . As a novelist, Forster has suffered by comparison to his more conspicuously innovative contemporaries...
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Other Stories (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
This is probably a shameful confession, but before Saturday morning I had never heard of Zora Neale Hurston, or her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. On top of that, if it hadn’t been lined up with the other beautiful...
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About Last Night (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Is it just me, or is John Keats everywhere right now? In her excellent Believer essay on novel-writing, Zadie Smith...
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Anglofille (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Literary blogs are buzzing this week with the news that Jhumpa Lahiri has won the Frank O’Connor short story prize — a major literary award worth £27,000. The fact that she won isn’t surprising, but what’s making news is that the judges announced they will not produce a shortlist of books that will compete [...]
