July 2009
14 posts
“it is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. let any...”
– bram stoker, dracula.
“i suppose a cry does us all good at times—clears the air as other rain...”
– bram stoker, dracula.
‘Life of Pi’ Author Is Said to Get $3 Million Deal... →
Seven years after winning the Man Booker Prize for “Life of Pi,” the global best seller about a shipwrecked Indian boy sharing a boat with a tiger, Yann Martel has sold a manuscript for his follow-up for around $3 million, according to people familiar with the negotiations—Motoko Rich.
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netherland.
i thoroughly enjoyed netherland by joseph o’neill. beautiful, moving writing, although i didn’t quite catch the comparisons it has drawn to the great gatsby. there is only one the great gatsby so i won’t hold it against o’neill that critics have been stacking up his work with f. scott fitzgerald’s :)
netherland takes place in post 9/11 new york city, narrated by a...
“i felt shame—i see this clearly, now—at the instinctive recognition...”
– joseph o’neill, netherland.
“but there’s no such thing as a cheap longing, i’m tempted to...”
– joseph o’neill, netherland.
nyc 92nd st y announces new literary event lineup →
my wishlist:
john irving
a celebration of vladimir nabokov
first reads with james wood
a conversation with chinua achebe
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.
Inside of a dog, it’s too dark...”
– Groucho Marx (via hershapeinthedoorway)