April 2010
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literary characters and their modern-day tabloid... →
my latest piece for flavorwire.
things presently annoying me on amazon.com
searching for vanity fair yielded the magazine as the first result rather than the classic novel the magazine was named after.
oprah’s book club stickers. how is the only available edition of a book i want to buy an oprah stamped copy?
“here is someone not set up for life’s working out poorly, let alone for...”
– philip roth, american pastoral.
“i think the novel, it will hang on in there, is my guess.”
– ian mcewan on the future of the novel in this interview with tina brown.
i like to think that this quote is mcewan’s polite, british version of eyerolling.
the third volume of the stieg larsson series
is so heavy that i hurt my right pointer finger gripping the book. overuse injury!
also, i may be imagining this in my smugness, but i think i have been getting envious looks on the subway seeing how the US release date is not until May 25.
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the lacuna.
i really want to like barbara kingsolver. people rave about her, but after first reading the bean trees and now the lacuna, i am still not onboard. her novels are inventive, she tells a great story, but the writing itself feels like it is missing something.
in the lacuna we follow the life of harrison shepherd, a kid who grows up in virginia and at age ten is brought along by his mexican mother...
e-books and the ipad.
up until yesterday i was firmly in the ‘i will never read for pleasure on an electronic device’ camp. then i stumbled on this article from salon.com, the ipad is for readers. previously i had perceived the ipad to be a response to the kindle plus internet access, but reading full length books doesn’t seem to be the primary function. the ipad might be a device i can use to consume...
i’m disappointed to be missing the ian mcewan reading at the 92y tonight. i have had my tickets for months and then had to fly west this week for work. if you attend, please drop me a note—i would love any scraps of details you can throw my way.