Aravind Adiga’s debut novel has won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. You may remember I interviewed Mr. Adiga a couple of weeks ago for our podcast. Congratulations to him on his tremendous novel.
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From the monthly archives:
October 2008
The House of Representatives of Massachusetts recently named Moby-Dick the commonwealth’s official ‘epic novel,’ a compromised reached after representatives from areas that were home to writers Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne protested. While the bill must still pass the Senate and get the governor’s signature, it got me thinking about our own state’s literary [...]
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I don’t normally do this. I almost never outright request that you, fair reader, buy a specific book at a specific time, but this is a special case. I’ve mentioned Amanda Petrusich a few times on this blog. She is the author of the new book It Still Moves, a great book about Americana music. [...]
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This week marks one of the busiest weeks of the literary schedule as the winner of the Booker Prize and the nominees for the National Book Award are announced. As I’ve said before, I’m pulling for Aravind Adiga’s excellent The White Tiger to win the Booker, while I’m hoping to see a few familiar names [...]
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Pitchfork Media, the home for all things obscure music criticism related, will publish its first music guide this fall. On November 11, Fireside Books will publish The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present. While there are other books that cover the same timeframe (particularly the very odd and [...]
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The best thing about the internet, I’ve always felt, is the sheer quantity of incredibly weird stuff on it. For instance, I was just checking out the Barrelhouse Blog, as I am wont to do from time to time, when I came across this post about a guy (it has to be a guy, right?) [...]
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French novelist and essayist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Shock of shocks: I haven’t read him. As Jacket Copy has pointed out this morning, neither have most Americans, as his books can be difficult to find here in the states. A quick check of our inventory shows that we’ve carried three of his books fairly recently: [...]
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Sarah Vowell was on The Daily Show recently and she wasn’t too happy with the way some politicians praise New York City on September 11, and then use New York City as the paragon of all that’s evil and elitist about America when they’re on the stump in middle America: Did I mention that Vroman’s [...]
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The Pasadena Playhouse District – the area of Pasadena where Vroman’s is located – has an excellent blog called Pasadena: Center of the Universe. Today, they’ve posted an interview with me. You can read my (definitely wrong) guess at who will win the Nobel Prize this year, among other things. Of course, now that I’ve [...]
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It’s a glorious morning in Southern California, and as such, the links: Laurel Maury reviews the much discussed Jewel of Medina in the LA Times. “The Jewel of Medina” is a second-rate bodice ripper or, rather, a second-rate bodice ripper-style romance (it doesn’t really have sex scenes). It’s readable enough, but it suffers from large [...]
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