From the monthly archives:
I loved this post on Paper Cuts about making a list of “Summer Reading Goals,” a roll-call of books to be read over the summer, just like back in elementary school (or the summer before AP English). I thought I’d post mine here so that everyone could check back in and mock me if I [...]
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As the weekend looms, some links to send you on your way: The 1001 books to read before you die. I can just see myself getting really far into the list, like one book away, then finding myself on a doomed airplane. Plummeting to earth, my death just moments away, I stand up: “Shit! Does [...]
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Kate Christensen’s newest novel The Great Man, for which she recently won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, is actually about three women and their relationship to one not-so-great man, the figurative painter Oscar Feldman. Claire St. Cloud, or “Teddy” as she’s known to her confidants, was Oscar’s lover, Abigail Feldman, his widow and the [...]
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Edan Lepucki is a fiction writer and writing instructor. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The LA Times West Magazine, Cutbank, and Meridian. She recently returned from a semester teaching creative writing at her alma mater, Oberlin College. Starting June 3, she will [...]
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A few links to help ease you through Tuesday. Wrapping up our “all things Frey” week, Scott Timberg has a profile of Frey and the LA life in the LA Times. At The Elegant Variation, Jim Ruland brings the snark in a piece about Frey’s writing process. Vroman’s getting some love from Shrinking Violet Productions. [...]
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Half way through James Frey’s sound check (how many reading events have a sound check?), I was starting to get worried. What if nobody showed? What if, when Josh Kilmer-Purcell took the stage, the crowd was just us booksellers and the sizable security crew that Frey and the Whisky had on hand? The band had [...]
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A full account of the James Frey event at the Whisky is forthcoming, but I wanted to point out, for all who may have missed it, that Joseph O’Neill’s novel Netherland got a rave review by Michiko Kakutani in today’s New York Times: If some of these passages reverberate with echoes of “The Great Gatsby” [...]
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As I’m lilting along in the calm between two enormous, high-energy events (Barbara Walters last night, James Frey tonight), I think I’ll keep today’s post short and pointless: Critic Wyatt Mason has started a blog called Sentences at the Harper’s site. The posts are smart and very literary. I doubt he’ll be able to keep [...]
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