buffy holt (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Flynn: Perhaps we should try to dig up works by authors who are championed, if quietly, but are seldom discussed or not terribly popular. Who have we not heard of that we should have? Oh! Barbara Pym. I managed, by luck, to come into a pile of books that had been left in the office of one of my former professors – an eccentric Yalie genius named XXXXX without whose Literary Theory class I would...
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
I'm not quite sure how I felt about reading a book called The Sweet Dove Died . Laying not a single claim to sweetness but I do now feel a strange and warm affinity with dove-like and dove-grey references whenever they crop up in a book, but another Barbara Pym was just what I needed once Clifton Fadiman had urged me to examine my bedtime reading carefully. Barbara Pym ( who I discover...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... a food prose glutton, we are always looking for more and better meals to read and remember, be it Barbara Pym's salmon mousses or the Sunday Night Lunches of the Betsy-Tacy series. If this sounds like a call for food scenes, it is: in books, as in life, enough is never enough, and a good meal is worth a thousand words. [New Yorker][Image via ]
