THREE PERCENT: I’m leaving tomorrow morning for
BookExpo America (aka
BEA, aka
ABA, well, OK,
ABA is more than a bit outdated, but I think some people still say this), and with
E.J. in Norway things might be a little quiet around here for the next few days.
VULPES LIBRIS: There are so many myths and half-truths surrounding the name of Alexandra Kollontai that, rather than write a plain old biographical sketch, I’m going to give you a quiz instead.
THE ELEGANT VARIATION: Please join me tomorrow evening at the Los Angeles Public Library, where I will be participating in the ALOUD series, which presents
Andrew Sean Greer in conversation with you-know-who.
THE INDEPENDENT: The 21st Hay Literary Festival is in full swing this week at Hay-on-Wye. Despite the awful weather, around 80,000 book lovers have streamed into the small town on the Welsh borders to see their favourite authors speak.
CBC CA: Bloc Québécois MP Viviane Barbot blasted an outspoken sovereigntist author for calling the Governor General a "Reine-Nègre," or Negro Queen.
NEW YORKER: In “Vivre Sa Vie” (1962), Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth feature (at Film Forum, May 30 through June 5), Nana (Anna Karina), broke and thrown out of her apartment, becomes a Paris streetwalker. In a café, she falls into conversation with a philosopher (the actual philosopher Brice Parain), who urges on . . .
NZ HERALD: James Frey, the American writer disgraced two years ago when his so-called memoir about addiction, A Million Little Pieces , was exposed as a fraud, has dared to resurface, this time with a novel, Bright Shiny Morning . It has earned...
THE INDEPENDENT: For many years, ironclad rules demarcated crime-fiction genres. There was the hardboiled novel, usually American, where damaged protagonists moved though a minatory world shot though with sexual betrayal. There was the "cosy", usually British, where the landscape was manicured, violent death offstage and the status quo always reasserted. And there was the novel of horror, where the bloodletting assumed operatic proportions.
EMERGING WRITERS NETWORK: A couple of excellent journals out there that concentrate solely on short fiction and I just happened to catch up with them this week:
EVE'S ALEXANDRIA: If there was ever a book to fit the stereotype of the Orange Prize (and of women's writing more generally) at first glance, it is Sadie Jones' debut novel,
The Outcast. Here we have all the quintessential elements of the domestic crisis, and of the familial breakdown.
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