THE AUSTRALIAN: FRANCE'S most celebrated and controversial contemporary author,
Michel Houellebecq, has come under attack from his elderly mother.
THE AUSTRALIAN: THERE is enough in
Shakespeare's works to suggest that, at base, he was a pretty sceptical sort of cove.
MAW BOOKS: Ihighly enjoyed this gem of a story,
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo, which was the 2004 Newbery Medal winner. What I didn't expect was how dark and cruel this story would be.
The only surviving mouse of a litter, Despereaux was born with his eyes ...
EMERGING WRITERS: Hey folks, it's rare around here to hear from anybody but myself unless it's an interview. I think Jeff Parker's essay about George Saunders on
Late Night with David Letterman just might be the only other occasion...
SUPERFASTREADER:
The rules: Top twenty favourite books in no particular order. Don’t think about it for too long. Take twenty minutes only to compile your list. Bold the ones you’ve read, or reread, since you’ve started blogging. Include novels, non fiction and plays.1. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
USA TODAY: With his new book, A Wolf at the Table, writer Augusten Burroughs proves that his memory well hasn't gone dry. He's still dipping ...
In 2002, Burroughs became the memoir "it" boy with his hilarious yet heartbreaking
Running With Scissors.
USA TODAY:
Tony Horwitz is back where it all began, at the most famous lump of granite in American history: Plymouth Rock. But
it doesn't refer to American history, no matter what you may have learned in third grade about the Mayflower Compact,...
THE INDEPENDENT: Paul Arnott is keen to distance himself from the pack of writers - pro-, anti- and even sometimes indifferent to religion - who have sought to ride on the coat-tails of the huge success of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. "I didn't set out to tangle with him, or his ilk," the author and television producer explains at the start of these "adventures of a devout sceptic". But he can't then resist a dig: "In the words of Prince Myshkin in Dostoevsky's The Idiot, 'Atheists always seem to be talking about...
LA TIMES: After
35 years in the trenches as an English professor at Citrus College in Glendora, author Dale Salwak has learned a few things. In his latest book, "Teaching Life," he assembles an epistolary memoir intended as a guiding light to neophyte academics.
THE MILLIONS: Coinciding with the start of the
PEN World Voices Festival, Tuesday's installment of the Pacific Standard Fiction Series in Brooklyn features three internationally acclaimed novelists.
Francisco Goldman (
The Ordinary Seaman),
Anne Landsman (
The Rowing Lesson), and
Ceridwen Dovey (
Blood Kin) will read from works ...
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