Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Russell Banks, Francine Prose, Mark Kurlansky and I (Chris Hedges) are collecting signatures (and 50 dollars) to put this ad in The New York Review of Books and The Nation calling on Obama not to expand the war in Afghanistan . Would this be something you would want to sign and support? Chris This is the letter: Dear President-elect Obama, We congratulate you and wish you the very best of fortune in...
Housing Works News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
A Literary Death Match tomorrow is followed by readings by Nathaniel Tarn , Francine Prose , and Amy Goldwasser music by Drew Daniel of Matmos . Also save the date for Xiu Xiu , playing in december.
My Tragic Right Hip (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
I didn't set out to read Francine Prose's Goldengrove this week. And the IFOA's kind of snuck up on me. A number of our authors are here to do readings and we've tried to organize On the Fly videos for them. Emma, Francine Prose's publicist, gave me a copy of the book so I could come up with a couple of questions for her author video and, as well, because I'm going to see if the author has time to...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Goldengrove. By Francine Prose. Harper. 288 pages. $24.95. So much seems tragic when we're teenagers: our appeal - or rather, the lack thereof - to the opposite sex; our embarrassing parents; a spectacularly bad haircut. Nico, ...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Books and circuses: The politics of literary scapegoating By Francine Prose Harper's ... On nearly every occasion when I’ve been invited to speak about both fiction and nonfiction writing, someone has asked my opinion of the scandalous disclosure that James Frey had fabricated sections of his memoir, A Million Little Pieces. I reply that I’m puzzled that people seem more upset by a lie about how long...
Tom Roper's Weblog (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
Francine Prose reviews Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, The Slaves of Solitude and Hangover Square in the New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21437
ThePublishingSpot (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
We spend too much time buried in our computer screens. A month ago, I left my computer and took a surreal trip to the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship to hear novelist Francine Prose and a motley crew of writers celebrate the PEN World Voices Festival that's lighting up New York this week. Music--as not noted in the video--was provided by Peacock's Penny Arcade . The festival also reminded me that too much...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
About a month ago, I took the afternoon off and walked down to the Brooklyn cruise-ship terminal. Poets Essayists Novelists (PEN) had issued an open invitation to schmooze aboard the massive Queen Mary 2, in honor of its upcoming World Voices Festival here in New York. I had gone, of course, for the only chance I'll probably ever get to walk around what was once the world's largest cruise ship. And...
ThePublishingSpot (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
Sometimes I ask myself why I pay high rents and fight crowded subways to live in New York City. But then I end up on a cruise ship in Red Hook, and I remember exactly why I'm here. Yesterday I took a surreal trip to the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship parked outside the Brooklyn docks--all to hear novelist Francine Prose and a motley crew of writers celebrate the upcoming PEN World Voices Festival . Running...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
When Francine Prose agreed a year ago to serve as president of the American center of PEN, the international writers organization, her excitement at taking the job was weighted slightly by concerns she wouldn't have time for other projects.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
When Francine Prose agreed a year ago to serve as president of the American center of PEN, the international writers organization, her excitement at taking the job was weighted slightly by concerns she wouldn't have time for other projects.
Charlotte was Both (Free subscription) | 16/01/2008
Yes, we’re still reading - five or six a night - so forgive my lameness in not picking out the best and sharing them with you. This selection, however, finally succeeded in pulling me out of my lethargy. You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-Vavniks by Francine Prose may sound overwhelming, but it's not. It's [...]
